“Coin-Operated Viewing Scope” | Anthony Satori
“Beauty… [offers] us a glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
– Albert Camus
A Glimpse of Eternity
Summer
Movement Like Water, Stillness Like a Mirror
“Dragonfly” | Anthony Satori
“When a man does not dwell in ego, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness is like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.”
– Chuang Tzu
Select Your Thoughts
“Windblown Sand” | Anthony Satori
“We need to learn how to select our thoughts just the same way we select our clothes every day. This is a power that can be cultivated. If you want to control things in your life, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
The Ingenuity with which Divinity Hides
“Cupcake with a Flower” | Anthony Satori
“The more prosaic, the more ‘ordinary’ anything seems to be, the more I am moved to marvel at the ingenuity with which divinity hides.”
– Alan Watts
Nature Does Not Hurry
“River Reeds” | Anthony Satori
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu
A Quiet Life
“Tennis on a Sunny Day” | Anthony Satori
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”
– Bertrand Russell
The Quality of Your Thoughts
“Ocean Pier” | Anthony Satori
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard them accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Everybody Needs Beauty
“Meerkat” | Anthony Satori
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and places to pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to the body and soul.”
– John Muir
Butterfly Dreams
“Yellow and Black Butterfly” | Anthony Satori
“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
– Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)
The Pleasure of Reading
“A Good Book on a Warm Summer Afternoon” –|– Anthony Satori
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
— Rene Descartes
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