“Front Row Seat” | Anthony Satori
“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, seems always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Front Row Seat
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The Soul Within
“The Soul Within” | Anthony Satori
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Walk in the Rain
“Walk in the Rain” | Anthony Satori
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
— Roger Miller
The Perception of Beauty
“The Perception of Beauty” | Anthony Satori
“Works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and to feel nobly.”
— Aldous Huxley
Love From Afar
“Two Birds” | Anthony Satori
[a poem]
Love from afar has a beauty all its own. That being said, let’s be near.
The Fire of Primal Energy
“The Fire of Primal Energy” | Anthony Satori
“Hear, O children of immortal bliss: you are born to be united with God. Follow the path of the illumined ones and be united with the Spirit of Life. Kindle the fire of kundalini [primal energy] deep in meditation. Bring your mind and breath under control. Drink deep of divine love, and you will attain the unitive state.”
— the Upanishads (Shvetashvatara)
Untranslatable
“Untranslatable” | Anthony Satori
“The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
— Walt Whitman
Spirit of the Artist
“K with Baton” | Anthony Satori
“Much that is beautiful stands as an isolated entity in this world, but the spirit of the artist seeks to discover connections and thus to create works of art.”
— Goethe
Hummingbird
“Hummingbird” | Anthony Satori
“The least of things with meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
— C. G. Jung
Entrée des Artistes
“Entrée des Artistes” | Anthony Satori
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
— Alan Watts
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