Hot Sauce

“Hot Sauce”  |  Anthony Satori

There is a wall at our local fish house which displays various brands of hot sauce from around the world.  It features sauces of many different flavors, styles, origins, and intensities.  When I look at it, it makes me think of how the sharing of food and flavors from different regions and countries has a way of making the world a smaller place, bringing otherwise disparate people closer together, causing us to feel more connected to one another’s cultures and traditions. 

If you want to understand someone better, share a meal with them.  If you want to understand a place better, take the time to seek out and experience some of the local cuisine.  If you want to feel closer to a specific person, cook something that is meaningful to you and enjoy it with them, and then let them do the same for you.  Food can be so much more than just nutrition, so much more than just “filling up.”  Food can play a very real role in both intercultural understanding and interpersonal relations, because it touches at the very heart of the human experience.

Enlightenment is Always There

“In the Night”  |  Anthony Satori

“Enlightenment is always there.  Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.  If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive — that you can touch the miracle of being alive — then that is a kind of enlightenment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

To Be Loved

“Loyal Heart”  |  Anthony Satori

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and to be loved in return.”

— Eden Ahbez

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