2nd Episode of Books That Saved My Life series is 💥Nietzsche💥 Subscribe to my YouTube for more: https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi #youtube #subscribingiscaring #video #books #bookstodon #reading #library @npub1kt3h...5004 #philosophy #literature #education #WritingCommunity #libraries

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on #Twitter / #x seeding angst and uncertainty A #Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the #socialmedia platform : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0 #science

Don’t think I did all this to get famous. I never cared for the good things of life. I always ate sensibly. I knew hunger well, and sorrow, and God. — Lal Ded (mystic, 1320–1392) #translation by Ranjit Hoskote #poetry #Islam #hindu #spirituality

When we pay attention, the air is heavy with #poetry, ripe for plucking. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZaCL780j0rR5oqAzP4rv7w

Can you avow you would die?

"If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us." — William Faulkner

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William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Be better than yourself.”

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‘To express the existential situation of modern man, one must live in exile of some sort.’ — Czesław Miłosz http://tpr.ly/bJyOza #literature #Immigration #refugees #poetry #poland #WritingCommunity #reading #meditation #writing #quotes #life

The #Artist as Mystic: Mahmoud Farshchian 'Beyond Earthly #Love' — #Iran #art #artwork #spirituality #inspiration #video #culture #beauty

Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends - Salon.com

Commentary: A Texas school board actually fought over a poster depicting kids of different races

#BlackAndWhite #blackmastodon #BlackFedi #racism #politics #usa #news #children #hate

‘I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams — like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.’ — Herman Hesse

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'Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.' — Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Truth in advertising morning epiphany applicable to love and life in haiku-like purity: only freshly squeezed separation is natural shake well to enjoy! In fructose veritas.

📖 #Today's #meditation : Think of your pain as a doctor, diagnosing your sickness and guiding you to health.

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Please #boost 🙏🏼 After 10 years in print, & some wonderful #reviews, my essay collection is now out of print & in search of a new home. If you are, or know of any good publishers of cultural nonfiction — contrasting the East & West — I hope you’ll help me give my #book a 2nd chance (with updated new essays). 💥 From Nietzsche to Bellydancing 💥

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#God does not change a people's lot unless they change what is in their hearts. ‎⁦‪#Quran‬⁩, 13:11 ‎✨ ‎Trust in God – but tie your camel first. ‎— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ #Islam #religion #faith #quotes #motivation #inspiration

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine — Buddha, Thomas Byrom’s verse rendering of the Dhammapada #meditation #buddhism #translation #inspiration #goodmorning

Suits was streamed for 3 billion minutes on #Netflix and its #writers were paid a collective $3,000 in residuals. And that’s why they are striking. https://nofilmschool.com/suits-residuals #writer #strike #writing #WritingCommunity #streaming #film #movies #series

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