“Calm Waters” | Anthony Satori
“The hub of calmness — that’s your heart. That’s where God lives within you. Just keep coming back to that center, and you’ll always find peace.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Calm Waters
spirituality
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.
Eternal
“Eternal” | Anthony Satori
“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
— Khalil Gibran
Higher Dimensions of Consciousness
“Tree” | Anthony Satori
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
— Lao Tzu
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)
Rain is Grace
“Rain is Grace” | Anthony Satori
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
— John Updike
Poets and Philosophers
“Big with Wonder” | Anthony Satori
“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
— Thomas Aquinas
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.
Companionship
“Companionship” | Anthony Satori
“When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time.”
— Ram Dass
Deep at the Center
“Cormorant” | Anthony Satori
“I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.”
— Confucius
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