'Some love the Whole and some love just a part, The latter from the Whole are kept apart ... The part's joined with the Whole,' I hear you say. Eat thorns then! They're joined to the rose, aren't they?' — Rumi, The Masnavi, Book One (Translation by Jawid Mojaddedi) #poetry #love

#Poetry : Blanca Varela (#translation : Carlos Lara)

What #book served as an axe 🪓 for the frozen sea 🌊 within you (in the striking phrasing of Kafka)? @npub1kt3h...5004 #books #bookstodon #video

Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation.

The Biggest Question Mark in Astronomy? You’re Looking at It. (Published 2023)

Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation.

#Space #photography #nasa

In #Life, there are so many (unwritten) #books … #youtube #YouTuber #video #videos #florida #beach #beachlife #quotes #saturday

#Today's #meditation: 🔥 Go back into the fire of childhood and rescue yourself.

Quarantine Notes

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God Speaks to Each God speaks to each of us before we are, before he's formed us — then, in cloudy speech, but only then, he speaks these words to each and silently walks with us from the dark… — Rilke #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #poet #spirituality

Wit and #wisdom from Danish philosopher, #poet, #scientist, Piet Hein: NAIVE Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. * The man who is only a poet is not even that. * OUT OF TIME My old clock used to tell the #time and subdivide diurnity; but now it's lost both hands and chime and only tells eternity. * THE ROAD TO WISDOM The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.

Grook s by Piet Hein

A collection of small aphoristic verses written by Piet Hein, the inventor of the

Our cow on farm has a calf, our first 🐮 #cows #farming #animals #colombia

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts—they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Emerson #books #quotes

2 of the nephews (ages 3 & 4) are down with #Covid & quarantining… So, the (slightly) older nieces are trying to entertain them/lift their spirits 🥰 #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #family #children #story #love #healthcare #health #selfcare #funny #fun #dance

'Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?' — Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra #philosophy #quotes #literature #books

If religions are understood as organized Love then, by definition, hate must be heresy. https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi #love #poetry #faith #video

Educated is schooled in the ways of the heart — literate is versed in the alphabet of emotions.

Quarantine Notes

#poetry #wisdom #writing #microfiction #psychology

The #Wisdom of William Blake #poetry #friends #love #hate

'Our lives are not for us alone. We are here to grow something that feeds others.' — Parker J. Palmer #community #humanity #quotes

Thank you Wardah #Books, #Singapore, for stocking my new #book:

Wardah Books

Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

Yahia LababidiPaperback, 168 pages9781959984221   "Yahia Lababidi's work is characterised by a contemplative tone in line with Rumi, whom he often...

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'Number is the Word, but is not utterance. It is wave and light, though no one sees it. It is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number." — Maurice Druony #math #mystery #quotes

The spiritual answer is: Don’t blame anyone, for anything— Not others, life, least of all, God. Accept the blame, let it be your teacher.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. — Rumi #mentalhealth #spirituality