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Yahia Lababidi

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Author of On the Contrary (2025), 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail (2024) & 12 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations. Exploring art, spirit, and conscience. #WritingCommunity #BookSky https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG

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#art by Sliman Mansour

Temporary escape, oil on canvas, 2018

#Palestine

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“The tongue of the [spiritual] state is more eloquent than my tongue,
And my silence is the interpreter of my question."

— Al-Hujwiri

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 4h

‘When the fishhook of Love catches your mouth, He will begin to pull you in, slowly.’

— Rumi, Fihe ma Fih

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 4h

If ten lamps are in one place, each differs in form from another; yet you can't distinguish whose radiance is whose when you focus on the light.

In the field of spirit there is no division; no individuals exist.

#Rumi

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 4h

There is in every age, a group of godly persons of whom God Most High never leaves the world destitute.

For they are the pillars of the earth, and by their blessings the divine mercy descends upon earthdwellers…

— Al-Ghazali

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 7h

🖋️ New on The Culturium
Wilde, Nietzsche & the Art of Living :

In this essay I trace the surprising affinities between two revolutionary 19th-century minds.

🖋️ Read the full essay here:
🔗 theculturium.com/yahia-lababidi-wilde-nietzsche-the-art-of-living #booksky #philosophy #art

Yahia Lababidi: Wilde, Nietzsche & the Art of Living | The Culturium

Yahia Lababidi's spellbinding exploration of the lives, philosophies & literary styles of Oscar Wilde & Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d

A personal essay, on some the books that have shaped me earlier:

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The Books We Were

Certain cherished books are like old loves. We didn’t part on bad terms; but it’s complicated, and would require too much effort to resume relations.If one’s first love is for Letters, people tend to ...

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Here's a handful of books on my shelf that have quietly been altering my inner landscape...

#shelfie #booksky #Islam

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'There must be something strangely sacred in salt.
It is in our tears and in the sea.'

— Gibran

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d

#Nature #photography by Kent Burgess

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'Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.'

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"...for here there is no place/ that does not see you. You must change your life."

— Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us"

—Franz Kafka

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Love

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How we fall asleep...

#pets #dogs #puppies

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Imagine Peace

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d

“Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas,
I sing to you, almost fatal birds of the soul...
Favored first prodigies, creation's darlings,
mountain ranges, peaks, dawn-red ridges
of all genesis,—pollen of a flowering godhead,
links of light, corridors, stairs, thrones…”

— Rilke

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d

#art by William Blake

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d

When we begin by training our hearts to be kinder, we also train our tongues.

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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

— Nietzsche

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d

#art by Mira Shihadeh, talented Palestinian

#Gaza #Palestine

Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d

“And if the Unbelievers seek your help, then help them, and escort them to safety. So long as they are true to you, be true to them. Surely, Allah loves righteousness."

#Quran 09:06