“Leaves on Blue Water” –|– Anthony Satori
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere; and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
— Hermann Hesse
“On the Water” –|– Anthony Satori
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Freedom and Life” –|– Anthony Satori
“This is the highest wisdom that I own: that freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ascend” –|– Anthony Satori
“On the mountains of knowledge you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Flow” –|– Anthony Satori
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
— Hermann Hesse
“The Moon Resting on a Tree” –|– Anthony Satori
“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ascent” –|– Anthony Satori
“Here I cry out, arms raised: ‘Both wealth and pleasure spring from dharma, so why is dharma not followed?’ Not for pleasure, not for fear, not for greed should one ever abandon dharma — not even to save one’s life. Dharma is eternal; happiness and misery are not eternal. The living self is eternal; the body through which it lives is not.”
— The Mahabharata
“A Good Book on a Warm Summer Afternoon” –|– Anthony Satori
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
— Rene Descartes
“Enlighten” –|– Anthony Satori
“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Tea and Contemplation” –|– Anthony Satori
“Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
— John Locke
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