Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~ Elbert Hubbard, c.1908 (Feel free to substitute woman . . . . or person . . . . for man - H. R.)
Author: Ab-Sutra Wellness and Fitness
Expressions: Jan 2026 I
Sobriety is either the love of health, or an incapacity for debauch. ~ François VI de la Rochefoucault
Expressions: Dec 2025 IX
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces
Expressions: Dec 2025 VIII
The smoothest path is no guarantee against a broken neck. ~ James Lendall Basford, Seven Seventy Seven Sensations
Reflections on Darkness
Darkness, often perceived as 'anti-life' and evil, is essential for understanding the totality of creation and complexity of self. It embodies undefinable chaos and infinitesimal potentiality, engendering fear for many. True introspection can lead to self-reconciliation, yielding up revelatory insights and buried energies. Resolving inner darkness fosters personal well-being and holistic wholeness; aspects crucial for human existence.
Expressions: Dec 2025 VII
We carry our burden on and on, until one day, suddenly, we laugh and set it down upon the ground. ~ Muriel Strode, My Little Book of Life
Expressions: Dec 2025 VI
If, when most desperate, we examine our misery, we find it but a drop spattered from seas of trouble. ~James Lendall Basford, Seven Seventy Seven Sensations,
Expressions: Dec 2025 V
Bad is never good until worse happens. ~ Proverb
Expressions: Dec 2025 IV
The earth is sliced into furrows that seeds may burst with life; even thus with our wounds. ~ Henry Stanley Haskins, "The Eternal Balance"
Expressions: Dec 2025 III
Earth's tribulations diminish in proportion to the elevation of our souls. ~ James Lendall Basford, Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone
