“Goldie” | Anthony Satori
“Who is this that we cherish as the Self? Which of these is the Self? It is this heart and this mind. It is awareness, perception, intelligence, insight… all of these are just names for consciousness. All is guided by consciousness, founded in consciousness. The world is guided by consciousness. Its foundation is consciousness. Consciousness is God.”
– The Upanishads
“The Heavens” | Anthony Satori
“God doesn’t know things. He is things.”
– D. H. Lawrence
“Grey Hawk” | Anthony Satori
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
– Victor Hugo
“Received by the Clouds” | Anthony Satori
“The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.”
– Chanakya
“Tortoise Laughing” | Anthony Satori
“Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.”
– Albert Camus
“Wild Creatures” | Anthony Satori
“Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?”
– Sir David Attenborough
“Triceratops” | Anthony Satori
“Staring at the stars is like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. We see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth: the whole concept just strikes me as amazing somehow.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“Lizard” | Anthony Satori
“And remember, the point of life is not to be the smartest person in the room. It is to understand things. To figure out how nature works. To do your part with the time you have.”
– Richard P. Feynman
“Pine Kernels” | Anthony Satori
“And life also belongs to God, for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God’s self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal. We say therefore that God is a living being, eternal, most good, so that life and duration continuous and eternal belong to God; for this is God.”
– Aristotle
The more I ponder it, the more it seems that the essence of all life is inextricably linked to the phenomenon of consciousness. It is entirely possible, then, that consciousness may even be the very substance of life itself. This seems to be what Aristotle is suggesting, when he says, “The actuality of thought is life.” And therefore, it would follow that the ultimate form of life would be an eternal, ultimate, omniscient consciousness, i.e., God. We often think of the ancient Greek philosophers as ultra-secular, but here we have Aristotle rather comfortably admitting that not only must there be a God, but that God must be a singular living being, and that this God must be an ultimate, eternal, self-dependent manifestation of creative consciousness. And therefore, under Aristotle’s view of the world, God must also be the ultimate and most perfect manifestation of everything that is good. So, basically, Aristotle is saying, “God is good.” This is just one step away from what Jesus taught, that God is love, (love being the highest, most pure manifestation of good.) Therefore, it seems clear to me that the closer we get to attaining our highest consciousness – and manifesting our highest love – the closer we get to a more perfect connection and communion with God.
“Spirit Hawk” | Anthony Satori
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface, but connected in the deep.”
– William James
