“Lemonade” | Anthony Satori
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.”
— Bill Watterson
Lemonade
spirituality
Plume
“Plume” | Anthony Satori
“I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like, but I know that when it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ Rather, He will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?'”
— Mother Teresa
Calm
“Calm” | Anthony Satori
“The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even in the very best conditions.”
— Kelsang Gyatso
Cobalt Blue
“Cobalt Blue” | Anthony Satori
“The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
— I Ching
Higher Dimensions of Consciousness
“Tree” | Anthony Satori
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
— Lao Tzu
In Sunlight
“In Sunlight” | Anthony Satori
“Who can leap the world’s ties and sit with me among white clouds?”
— Han Shan (Taoist poet, c. 900 A.D.)
The Edges of Time
“Water Droplets” | Anthony Satori
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
Light and Guidance
“Flow” | Anthony Satori
“To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
— Buddha
Where the Buddha Resides
“Steel Horse” | Anthony Satori
“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha — which is to demean oneself.”
— Robert M. Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A Good Fire
“Thoreau’s Cooking Stove” | Anthony Satori
“I sometimes left a good fire when I went to take a walk in a winter afternoon; and when I returned, three or four hours afterward, it would be still alive and glowing. My house was not empty though I was gone. It was as if I had left a cheerful housekeeper behind. It was I and Fire that lived there.”
“The next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy… but it did not keep fire so well as the open fireplace. Cooking was then, for the most part, no longer a poetic, but merely a chemic process. It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes. The stove not only took up room and scented the house, but it concealed the fire, and I felt as if I had lost a companion. You can always see a face in the fire. The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts… But I could no longer sit and look into the fire.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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