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Yahia Lababidi
EgyptianAphorist@mindly-social.mostr.pub
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Author of On the Contrary (2025), What Remains To Be Said (2025), Palestine Wail (2024) & 11 other books of aphorisms, poetry, essays & conversations. ✨ Video trailer: https://youtu.be/ax6v01GCXSo ✨ #Palestine #Gaza #ceasefire #genocide #fedi22 #wisdom #inspiration #books #writing #poetry #Egypt #Art #Islam #spirituality #faith #activism #peace #meditation #politics #photography #Nature #quotes
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
‘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 image
The #Artist as Mystic: Mahmoud Farshchian 'Beyond Earthly #Love' — #Iran #art #artwork #spirituality #inspiration #video #culture #beauty image
‘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 image
"Spiritual transformation" by Otake Hiroko #art #painting #artist #spirituality image
'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 image
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. #healthcare #selfcare #psychology #spirituality #healing #poetry #life #poetrycommunity #microfiction #micropoetry #WritingCommunity #health #JoinIn image
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 💥 @npub1kt3h...5004 #publishing #books #bookstodon #writing #WritingCommunity #culture #nonfiction #Egypt #philosophy
#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 image
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 image
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