“Black and Yellow Butterfly on Blue Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Bar” | Anthony Satori
“Together with a culture of work, there must also be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must also take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, to read, to listen to music, to play a sport.”
– Pope Francis
“Red Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
– Goethe
“Be Love” | Anthony Satori
“The child learns to speak, not because it has learned teachers, but because it lives with those who know how to speak.”
– Lao Tzu
The great Taoist Master Lao Tzu was telling us not only how a child learns to speak, but he was also giving us a powerful metaphor for so many other things. The human being learns the Tao in this same way: not from great teachers, but from living among those who already know the Tao. This is also how each one of us learns how to truly live well: how to think, act, and speak with compassion and common sense, how to create things of value, how to find inner calm and peace, how to cultivate healthy relationships with others, how to live with enthusiasm and authenticity, and how to give and receive help and knowledge with an open heart. We learn these things from living among those who already know how to do them. And, perhaps most importantly of all, the human heart learns how to love and to be loved, in this manner, as well. We learn this by living in a family, in a community, and in a society that already understands how to do this. Once we realize this fact, it becomes incredibly clear why it is of such vital importance for each one of us to strive to preserve and cultivate these values in our own lives, in our own families, and in our own communities. We each form a vital link in the chain toward a better and more beautiful world.
“Snowcapped” | Anthony Satori
“The highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a Creator.”
– Marcel Proust
“In the Eyes” | Anthony Satori
“The wisdom of nature speaks out of the peaceful glance of animals. In them the whole phenomenon is still firmly attached to the stem of nature from which it has sprung, and partakes of the unconscious omniscience of the great mother.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“Grasshopper” | Anthony Satori
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Golden” | Anthony Satori
“There are only three things that a man really wants to do, all his life; and these are 1) to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, 2) to salute his fellow man, and 3) to enjoy the love of the woman who has come the long way with him.”
– D. H. Lawrence
“Vines” | Anthony Satori
“Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining. Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let passion exalt your reason, so that it may sing; and let reason direct your passion, so that it may live.”
– Khalil Gibran
“Dancer, Racehorse, Buddha” | Anthony Satori
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If you can control your mind you can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to you.”
– Buddha
