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The Delicate Balance of the Unencumbered Life

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“Day Moon Rising” | Anthony Satori

“Simplify. Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered. Wabi-sabi tells us to enjoy the unencumbered life. Obviously, leading the simple wabi-sabi life requires some effort and some will, and also some tough decisions. We still live in a world of things. But wabi-sabi is about the delicate balance between the pleasure we get from things and the pleasure we get from freedom from things.”

– Leonard Koren

Where the Gods Live Serene

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“Gibbous Moon” | Anthony Satori

“A person of powerful intellect is capable of taking a vivid interest in things in the way of mere knowledge, with no admixture of will. It places him in a sphere where pain is an alien – a diviner air, where the gods live serene.”

– Arthur Schopenhauer

Golden Moon

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“Golden Moon” | Anthony Satori

“You may have noticed that everything we do is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, because theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle, and so it is with everything where power moves.”

– Black Elk

Artemis

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“Artemis”  |  Anthony Satori

“Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets [of nature] have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them?”

— Orville Wright, co-inventor of the first airplane. (1903)

Nature holds so many wonderful mysteries.  It’s like a giant cosmic Easter Egg hunt that has been carefully set in place for us to enjoy, and I picture a benevolent Creator just sitting back and watching, with pleasure and pride, as we seek — and gradually discover — the endless gifts and surprises that have been hidden for us throughout nature, around the universe, and even within our own souls.

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Historical Note:  This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which sent two American astronauts to walk on the moon for the first time in human history.  Just this week, as well, a brand new mission has been announced by NASA, scheduled to return humans to the moon by 2024.  This new mission is called Artemis.  In Greek mythology, Artemis is the godess of wilderness, exploration, archery, and the moon.  She is also the twin sister of Apollo.

Harmony

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“Harmony”  |  Anthony Satori

“Whoever dedicates one’s life to searching out particular connections in nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question of how they harmoniously fit into the whole.”

— Werner Heisenberg

I Do Not Know Its Name

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“Golden”  |  Anthony Satori

“There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth.  Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change.  It may be considered the mother of the universe.  I do not know its name;  I call it Tao.”

— Lao Tzu

This week was the start of the Lunar New Year.  Kung xi fa cai, everyone! (A wish for happiness and prosperity.)  Cheers!

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Dark Side of the Moon

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“Moon Dust”  |  Anthony Satori

Just a few short weeks after NASA landed the Insight rover on the surface of Mars, the Chinese space program successfully landed a probe on the previously unexplored “dark side” of the moon.  What wonderful accomplishments!  I cannot wait to find out what we see, what we discover, and what we can all learn from these missions.  Science, art, nature, spirituality — these are such crucial areas of exploration, because they each, in their own way, make us realize how we all, as humans, have so much more in common than we have differences between us.

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A Love Story

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“The Blue Dream of Sky”  |  Anthony Satori

“i thank you God for most this amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

— e. e. cummings