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Yahia Lababidi
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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. โœจ Video trailer: https://youtu.be/ax6v01GCXSo โœจ #Palestine #Gaza #ceasefire #genocide #fedi22 #wisdom #inspiration #books #writing #poetry #Egypt #Art #Islam #spirituality #faith #activism #peace #meditation #politics #photography #Nature #quotes

Our days-old calf can now stand upright & walk ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿฎ

#farming #farm #nature #colombia #animals #video #family #children #cute #funny #love

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We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

โœจ

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what Iโ€™ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

โ€” Robert Frost

https://youtube.com/shorts/0vXFZCxyN8k?si=gOpPkhd6T8JIkb5u

#poetry #WritingCommunity #reading #youtube #video #mystery #love #hate #meditation

19th Century French Bronze of a Snake Charmer,

by Charles Arthur Bourgeois

#art #artist #artwork #sculpture

#art by #artist Jenny Holzer

#streetphotography #streetart

Home

no one leaves home unless

home is the mouth of a sharkโ€ฆ

no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear

saying-

leave,

run away from me now

i dont know what iโ€™ve become

but i know that anywhere

is safer than here

โ€” Warsan Shire

https://youtube.com/shorts/KnUT3A3XNaU?si=IzmSDFcxaDH9jT91

#refugees #Immigration #migration #politics #news #home #culture #video #poetry #reading

#Today's #meditation :

What is permissible for others

might be impermissible for you

The Master is not permitted

the mistakes of a novice.

https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html

#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #microfiction #micropoetry #writing #WritingCommunity #SilentSunday

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."

โ€” Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)

#quotes #books

โ€œI am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough

to make every moment holy.

...

and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,

when something is coming near,

I want to be with those who know secret things

or else alone.

...

I want to unfold.

I donโ€™t want to stay folded anywhere,

because where I am folded, there I am a lie."

โ€” Rilke

(Bly #translation )

#poetry #mystery

'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?'

โ€” Rumi, The Masnavi, Book One

(Translation by Jawid Mojaddedi)

#poetry #love

#Poetry : Blanca Varela

(#translation : Carlos Lara)

nostr:npub1dkh7np7wzgqeczs39l4epuv2y339n47hwe7mrjcghskevnx26lgqms4s4e As someone of Palestinian background, I am grateful ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ Shalom โœจ

What #book served as an axe ๐Ÿช“ for the frozen sea ๐ŸŒŠ within you (in the striking phrasing of Kafka)?

https://youtube.com/shorts/51RoNc3SIv4?si=Wpxl8CKQmYqdgzVa

nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 #books #bookstodon #video

In #Life, there are so many (unwritten) #books โ€ฆ

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#youtube #YouTuber #video #videos #florida #beach #beachlife #quotes #saturday

#Today's #meditation:

๐Ÿ”ฅ Go back into the fire of childhood and rescue yourself.

https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html

#WritingCommunity #writing #poetry #poetrycommunity #psychology #familyhistory #family #trauma

God Speaks to Each

God speaks to each of us before we are,

before he's formed us โ€” then, in cloudy speech,

but only then, he speaks these words to each

and silently walks with us from the darkโ€ฆ

โ€” 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.

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/grooks.html

nostr:npub16q2526xgshxywrsq6k3lyrztn79pqd764u77s90ne2666sc43rcqz0e7ya Thanks, for good cheer! More of our cows are pregnant ๐Ÿ˜Š