The astonishingly grand things readers say that make the #writing life worth it 🪷

Quarantine Notes

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Shuttered Windows To speak of the smell & feel
of books, the erotics of the text,
has begun to sound perverse One by one, the old places of worship
temples, bookstores, Nature herself
become quaint and are vacated In their stead a gleaming, ambitious screen
part shuttered window, part distorting mirror
full of wandering, restless spirits Like so many ghosts in limbo — free of the tyranny of bodies,
yet aching for their phantom limbs. #poetry #writing #internet #computers

@ The Beach 🌊 #beach #beachlife #ocean #birds #birdphotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Maryland #usa #photography #photo #photos #bird #birding

#Egypt is a mad mother that devours her children:

Words Without Borders

The City and the Writer: In Cairo with Yahia Lababidi - Words Without Borders

Image: Yahia Lababidi. Courtesy of the author. If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess...

#culture #home #familyhistory #love

Memory has its own geographies — not all of which can be found on a map.

Quarantine Notes

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With #DonaldTrump back in the picture, revisiting this #book of essays I was a part of (from McSweeneys) which began its life as a #petition to impeach #Trump: 22 powerful pieces from artists & activists: Lev Grossman, Rick Moody, Matthew Zapruder, Terrance Hayes & yours truly ✌🏼 @npub1kt3h...5004 #books #bookstodon #artist #activism #elections #politics #usa #news #fascism #boost

🙏🏼 Amor Fati 🙇🏻‍♂️ You should arm yourself, not like a Caesar with a raised sword against the world, but with the words: Amor Fati—love your fate. You shall make this axiom your strongest liberator; You have chosen your path in the thicket. Don't look sideways at other paths! —André Bjerke, #translation by Hossein Kashani ( #Art by Elena Ray) #poetry #philosophy #spirituality

A Colombian friend showed me a copy of my #book of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Hay House) To my astonishment, I saw that he had translated all 300 aphorisms into #Spanish! #LatinAmerica , as I’ve come to know it over the years, is rich in its appreciation of #language, especially, ‘dichos’ ( sayings). I hope a Spanish publisher might do me the honor of introducing my work to this sympathetic culture 🙌🏼 https://www.amazon.com/stores/Yahia%20Lababidi/author/B0042SRQWG #books @npub1kt3h...5004 #translation #colombia #life

In every reported case where #police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been #Black :

Business Insider

In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black

Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.

#ai #Tech #BlackAndWhite #blackmastodon #BlackFedi #usa #politics #racism #news #artificialintelligence #technology #technews

Chicken parm in 4 easy steps 👨🏻‍🍳 #food #foodporn #foodie #cooking #recipe #health #selfcare #photography #photo

‘I am not a man but a cloud in trousers.’ — George Balanchine (1904-1983) #quotes #motivation

#Today's #meditation : 🪷 How would we live, differently, if we accepted our lives and bodies are not our own, but on loan from the Divine? 🪷

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Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

"Yahia Lababidi's work is characterized by a contemplat…

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Those who speak ill of life do not realize they only smear their own names.

Goodreads

Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

"Yahia Lababidi's work is characterized by a contemplat…

#QuarantineNotes #life #meditation #gratitude #poetry #WritingCommunity

Prayer is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. — Emerson #literature #prayer #song #quote #gratitude

‘Who these days writes aphorisms? Yahia Lababidi is keeping this art alive today — in times when morality is misunderstood and misappreciated — Clearly a mystic with direct insight into the nature of reality, he simply manages to inspire. A striking read that is a beautiful companion for anyone with a reflective nature!’ https://www.amazon.com/Quarantine-Notes-Aphorisms-Morality-Mortality-ebook/dp/B0CBCWV7HS?ref_=ast_author_mpb @npub1kt3h...5004 #amazon #wisdom #poetry #WritingCommunity #writingwonders #spirituality #philosophy #reading #life

The jailer is never free.

Quarantine Notes

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'The way is long only because you delay to start on it; one single step would bring you to Him: become a slave, and you will become a king ✨ Whatever befalls you, misfortune or fortune, is unalloyed blessing; the attendant evil a fleeing shadow. ✨ No more nonsense! Lose yourself, and the hell of your heart becomes a heaven. Lose yourself, and anything can be accomplished. Your selfishness is an untrained colt — Sanai #poetry #spirituality #Islam #faith #art #inspiration #motivation

"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see... their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.” — Yeats #peace #meditation

Either receive light from contemporaries Or from the candles of past visionaries. — Rumi, The Masnavi ✨ Your Lord sends in the days of your era special breaths, so make sure to receive them! — Prophet Mohammed ﷺ #light #inspiration

From a book of epigrams: Optical Biases, by Richard Krause https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Biases-Epigrams-Richard-Krause/dp/8792633161?fbclid=IwAR0yNvpAeq0W2s36LPwSYHD4Bev1yI4-VV-3beICZlo5uOTSdNgxq-88ocQ_aem_AacwiXH7H46sYDvyrOO3ONeMte2flOWvje2mcI1w08vsYqZDbJCf_rWU8aCWz0DRxNQ&mibextid=Zxz2cZ #bookstodon #meditation #psychology