“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
“Simplicity” | Anthony Satori
“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Elixir” | Anthony Satori
“Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.”
– Lao Tzu
“Crème Brûlée and a Shot of Espresso” | Anthony Satori
“We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are only atoms and void.”
– Democritus (c. 400 BC)
“Tree and Yellow Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
– D. H. Lawrence
“Lotus Garden” | Anthony Satori
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Aqua Blue” | Anthony Satori
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Four-Winged Butterfly” | Anthony Satori
“Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.”
– Simone Weil
“Mystic Sky” | Anthony Satori
“This was the stillness of the eternal beginning, the world as it had always been: in a state of non-being. There I was, now, the first human being to recognize that this was the world, but who did not know that in this moment he had also first really created it. There, the cosmic meaning of consciousness became overwhelmingly clear to me: What nature leaves imperfect, art perfects, say the alchemists. In an invisible act of creation, I, Man, had put the stamp of perfection on the world, by giving it objective existence.
My old Pueblo friend came to my mind. He thought that the raison d’etre of his pueblo had been to help their Father, the Sun, to cross the sky each day. I had envied him for the fullness of meaning in that belief, and I had been looking about without hope for a myth of our own.
Now I knew what it was, and I knew, even more, that Man is indispensable for the completion of Creation. I knew that, in fact, he himself is the second Creator of the world, who alone has given to the world its objective existence – without which, unheard, unseen, silently, through hundreds of millions of years, it would have gone on in the profoundest night of non-being, down to its unknown end. Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and Man thereby found his indispensable place in the great process of Being.”
– C. G. Jung
“Lightning Storm” –|– Anthony Satori
“The sensation of ‘I’ as a lonely and isolated center of being is so powerful and common-sensical, and so fundamental to our modes of speech and thought… that we cannot help but experience selfhood except as something superficial in the scheme of the universe. I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time – a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multi-colored drops that gleam for a moment only to vanish forever. Under such conditioning, it seems impossible and even absurd to realize that my ‘self’ does not reside in the drop alone, but in the whole surge of energy which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclear fields in my body. At this level of existence… my forms are infinite, and their comings and goings are simply the pulses or vibrations of a single and eternal flow of energy.”
– Alan Watts
Satori Circle | Art & Culture 