When friendships begin counting favors, the odds that accompany those calculations will inevitably lead to an active struggle.

Proverb #338
Once one deems all that he or she possesses as indispensable, it is with great difficulty that something of greater value can be placed in that […]

Man In Hell #301
Man individually enslaves himself to the traditions of culture, of religion, of race, and the intensity of the greed by which each man seeks these things […]

Proverb #71
When once the soul has divested the self of carnal desire; the want gives way to knowledge of need, which precludes the divine discovery of wanting […]

THE RUSTLE OF LEAVES (Poem 35)
The Rustle of Leaves Left there slipping ever so gently beneath the stones where it lay un-rested Time challenges to summon the occasional question but leaves […]

Proverb #254
The greed to gain much in order to give little is all too apparent and its registry noted.