“Tea and Cookies” | Anthony Satori
“Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Tea and Cookies
happiness
Ad Astra
“Ad Astra” | Anthony Satori
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
Happy New Year, everyone! May your coming year be filled with health, prosperity, and happiness beyond your highest expectations.
A State of Harmony
“Tree Swing (Autumn)” | Anthony Satori
Happiness and peace arise from cultivating a state of harmony between one’s inner light (mind, body, and spirit) and the details of the world around us.
Spiritual Exercises
“Rose” | Anthony Satori
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
— Leo Buscaglia
Flying Colors
“Flying Colors” | Anthony Satori
“I believe that if one were to always look up at the skies, one would end up with wings.”
— Gustave Flaubert
Every day, whenever you can, remember to place your attention and thoughts on the good things in your life, on all of the things that you are grateful for, and on everything that you wish to see grow and expand and thrive. Where you choose to focus your mental, spiritual, and emotional energy will determine what will become nourished and strong in your life, and you will become an active agent in the creation of your own best world.
Lemonade
“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
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
Good Company
“Good Company” | Anthony Satori
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
— Epictetus
The Everness of Zen
“Everness” | Anthony Satori
Strive to find happiness, gratitude, and inspiration in whatever good you may have in your life, right here, right now. This is the Everness of Zen.
[a poem]
There is no need to hurry to get there,
because there is only more here waiting there.
There is always more beauty in life when you love,
because even all becomes more when it’s shared.
There is no need to look too far forward or back,
because only now holds the essence of everness.
Find pleasure and calm in your presence of mind,
and your life won’t get lost into neverness.
Artist as Bacchus
“I, Bacchus” | Anthony Satori
“Music, [poetry, and art] are the wine which inspire people to new generative processes, and we [artists] are Bacchus, pressing out this glorious wine for mankind and making them spiritually drunken.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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