“Red Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
– Goethe
Peace
literature
Bestowing Light
“Dionysus” | Anthony Satori
“Every time that someone has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered them by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon their soul, not by inciting them to abandon their religious tradition, but by bestowing upon them light.”
– Simone Weil
The Pursuit of Happiness
“Happy Bird” –|– Anthony Satori
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
– Guillaume Apollinaire
The Golden Link
“Cityscape” –|– Anthony Satori
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”
— Petrarch
Walden: Life in the Woods
“Walden House” | Anthony Satori
“My dwelling was small, and I could hardly entertain an echo in it; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment and remote from neighbors.”
“Walden House II (Interior)” | Anthony Satori
“All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one room; it was kitchen, chamber, parlor, and keeping-room; and whatever satisfaction [one may] derive from living in a house, I enjoyed it all.”
“Walden House III” | Anthony Satori
“The snow had already covered the ground… and surrounded me suddenly with the scenery of winter. I withdrew yet farther into my shell, and endeavored to keep a bright fire both within my house and within my breast.”
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Life in the Woods, 1854)
Conscious Endeavor
“Conscious Endeavor” | Anthony Satori
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
— Henry David Thoreau
The Divine Spark
“Seven Hills” | Anthony Satori
“The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. The need for poetry… is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.”
— Saint-John Perse
There is a spiritual need for art, poetry, music, literature, etc. Dreamers and their dreams, creators and their creations, seekers and their insights, lovers and the acts which arise from love — these are the vessels of the divine spark of the human spirit.
The Great Harmony
“The Great Harmony” | Anthony Satori
“The way of the creative works 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
Light From Within
“Light From Within” | Anthony Satori
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
— Rumi
Join the Dance
“Spins” | Anthony Satori
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, to move with it, to join the dance.”
— Alan Watts
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