“Autumn” | Anthony Satori
“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
Autumn
nature
The Ordering of Nature
“Cormorants on the Wind” | Anthony Satori
“More and more it seems to me that the ordering of nature is an art akin to music – fugues in a shell, counterpoints in fibers, throbbing rhythms in waves of sound, light, and nerve. And oneself is connected with it quite inextricably – an electronic interweaving of paths, circuits, and impulses that stretch and hum throughout the whole of time and space.”
– Alan Watts
The Heartbeat of the Universe
“Lotus Garden” | Anthony Satori
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Campbell
Love and Compassion
“Bamboo Forest” | Anthony Satori
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
– Dalai Lama
Supernatural
“Four-Winged Butterfly” | Anthony Satori
“Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.”
– Simone Weil
Beauty and Harmony
“Open Wings” | Anthony Satori
“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows them.”
– Herman Melville
The Sage’s Mind
“Ocean Cave” | Anthony Satori
“The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract the sage’s mind – that is the reason he is still. In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn. In the midst of soundlessness, he alone hears harmony.”
– Lao Tzu
Between Eternities
“California Poppies in Spring” | Anthony Satori
“A positive and cheerful state of mind is a direct and immediate gain – the very currency, as it were, of happiness. It is not, like all else, merely a cheque upon the bank. For it alone makes us immediately happy in the present moment, and that is the highest blessing for beings like us, whose existence is but an infinitesimal moment between two eternities.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Every spring, when I see the California poppies bloom, it fills my heart with warmth. It reminds me that love exists outside of time and space. It reminds me that every single day of this brief lifetime – this exquisite and most precious moment between eternities that we’ve been given – is an opportunity for us to manifest our inner light, to engage in acts of compassion, kindness, goodness, and love, and to expand our enlightened mind.
These beautiful, vibrantly orange-colored flowers bloom every spring, and then disappear. But the sensations that they awaken within me remain vividly present, all year around. I truly believe that love – real love – once created, can never be destroyed. And joy, indeed, is the infallible sign of the presence of God. And every time we engage from a pure heart with the Spirit of Light and Love within us, we touch eternity.
The Mind of God
“Vibrations” | Anthony Satori
“In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.”
– Michio Kaku
Simple Harmony
“Walden Pond in Spring” | Anthony Satori
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
– Albert Camus
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