“Winter Tree” | Anthony Satori
“The trees were beautiful without their leaves, when you were reconciled to them.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Winter Tree
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The Stillness Underneath
“Tree of Light” –|– Anthony Satori
“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Blue Sky
“Blue Sky” –|– Anthony Satori
“Love is space and time, measured by the heart.”
– Marcel Proust
Chords in Harmony
“Through the Leaves” –|– Anthony Satori
“I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That would have sounded pretentious to me once, but I believe it now.”
– Gene Wilder
Tree in a Field of Yellow Flowers
“Tree in a Field of Yellow Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“The temple bell stops, but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
— Matsuo Basho
Our connection with God does not have to begin and end at the temple door. If we pay attention, watch closely, and listen carefully, we will find it vibrating throughout everything around us.
Love Nature
“Mountain” | Anthony Satori
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The Middle Way
“The Middle Way” | Anthony Satori
“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
— Swami Sivananda
Expect Wonders
“Expect Wonders” | Anthony Satori
“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Higher Natures
“Tree of Light” | Anthony Satori
“[Our] higher natures… originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.”
— I Ching
In This Shadow
“In This Shadow” | Anthony Satori
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this… universe is but a faint shadow.”
–William Blake
While we are here, however, in this shadow, let us make it as good and as beautiful as we can.
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