“Lamp” | Anthony Satori
“Death is not extinguishing the light, it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
When Dawn Comes
poetry
Poetry with Arms and Legs
“The Dance” | Anthony Satori
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dance is poetry with arms and legs.”
– Charles Baudelaire
Radiating the Light of Life
“The Light of Life” | Anthony Satori
“Let us be together. Let us eat together. Let us be vital together. Let us be radiating truth, radiating the light of life. Never shall we entertain negativity.”
– The Upanishads
Quietness and Common Sense
“Guitar and Chair” | Anthony Satori
“Lives of quietness and common sense are stable and unswayed; they keep homes safe.”
– Euripides
Transcendent Moments of Awe
“Reverence” | Anthony Satori
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
– John Milton
On the Nature of God
“The Heavens” | Anthony Satori
“God doesn’t know things. He is things.”
– D. H. Lawrence
Received by the Clouds
“Received by the Clouds” | Anthony Satori
“The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.”
– Chanakya
A Glistening Drop of Dew
“Water Bottle” | Anthony Satori
“I traveled miles, for many a year, I spent a lot of time in lands afar. I’ve gone to see mountains, the oceans I’ve been to view. But I haven’t seen with these eyes, just two steps from my home, lies on a corn of paddy grain, a glistening drop of dew.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
A Glimpse of Eternity
“Coin-Operated Viewing Scope” | Anthony Satori
“Beauty… [offers] us a glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
– Albert Camus
Movement Like Water, Stillness Like a Mirror
“Dragonfly” | Anthony Satori
“When a man does not dwell in ego, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness is like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.”
– Chuang Tzu
