Yahia Lababidi
@ysl.bsky.social
Author of On the Contrary (2025), 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail (2024) & 12 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations.
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Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
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"Change the value of the currency."
Oracle Diogenes received at Delphi
Oracle Diogenes received at Delphi
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Change the value of the currency."
Oracle Diogenes received at Delphi
Oracle Diogenes received at Delphi
Because Beauty requires no excuse or explanation, here’s luminous #art of #artist I’m new to:
“To paint with light in a three-dimensional space is to bring one’s thoughts from unconscious realms into existence, only visible as presented through long-exposure #photography.”
— Vitor Schietti
“To paint with light in a three-dimensional space is to bring one’s thoughts from unconscious realms into existence, only visible as presented through long-exposure #photography.”
— Vitor Schietti
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Because Beauty requires no excuse or explanation, here’s luminous #art of #artist I’m new to:
“To paint with light in a three-dimensional space is to bring one’s thoughts from unconscious realms into existence, only visible as presented through long-exposure #photography.”
— Vitor Schietti
“To paint with light in a three-dimensional space is to bring one’s thoughts from unconscious realms into existence, only visible as presented through long-exposure #photography.”
— Vitor Schietti
Part of gratitude, as I understand it, is soul-searching — recognizing our transgressions & striving to do better:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
Reflections on Sin & Salvation
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Part of gratitude, as I understand it, is soul-searching — recognizing our transgressions & striving to do better:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
🤲🏼 Rules of Recitation by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha #shorts #islam #poetry
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Every empire denies the iceberg
it crashes into, hires a chorus, funds the arts.
Every empire sings itself a lullaby."
— Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, To Be Self-Evident
(Something About Living, University of Akron Press)
youtu.be/Q3AYfJAf434?... #poetry #writing #Palestine #USA #booksky
it crashes into, hires a chorus, funds the arts.
Every empire sings itself a lullaby."
— Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, To Be Self-Evident
(Something About Living, University of Akron Press)
youtu.be/Q3AYfJAf434?... #poetry #writing #Palestine #USA #booksky
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha accepts the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry for Something About Living
YouTube video by National Book Foundation
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November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Every empire denies the iceberg
it crashes into, hires a chorus, funds the arts.
Every empire sings itself a lullaby."
— Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, To Be Self-Evident
(Something About Living, University of Akron Press)
youtu.be/Q3AYfJAf434?... #poetry #writing #Palestine #USA #booksky
it crashes into, hires a chorus, funds the arts.
Every empire sings itself a lullaby."
— Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, To Be Self-Evident
(Something About Living, University of Akron Press)
youtu.be/Q3AYfJAf434?... #poetry #writing #Palestine #USA #booksky
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
That is why so much social life is exhausting."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
That is why so much social life is exhausting."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
That is why so much social life is exhausting."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
That is why so much social life is exhausting."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
All who are tormented by an Ideal must learn to make an ally of failure.
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
All who are tormented by an Ideal must learn to make an ally of failure.
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If I can stop one heart from breaking...
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If I can stop one heart from breaking...
LATE FRAGMENT
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
— Raymond Carver
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
— Raymond Carver
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
LATE FRAGMENT
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
— Raymond Carver
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
— Raymond Carver
lovely lines from a biography of French poet Rimbaud, written when he was only 16:
La nouvelle Année...
Sourit avec des pleurs, et chante en grelottant...
(The New Year... Smiles through her tears, and, while shivering, sings...)
La nouvelle Année...
Sourit avec des pleurs, et chante en grelottant...
(The New Year... Smiles through her tears, and, while shivering, sings...)
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
lovely lines from a biography of French poet Rimbaud, written when he was only 16:
La nouvelle Année...
Sourit avec des pleurs, et chante en grelottant...
(The New Year... Smiles through her tears, and, while shivering, sings...)
La nouvelle Année...
Sourit avec des pleurs, et chante en grelottant...
(The New Year... Smiles through her tears, and, while shivering, sings...)
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Listening is a charity, saying a good word is a charity
and standing up for what is good.
These are things we can do, if we keep our hearts open 🙏🏼
and standing up for what is good.
These are things we can do, if we keep our hearts open 🙏🏼
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Listening is a charity, saying a good word is a charity
and standing up for what is good.
These are things we can do, if we keep our hearts open 🙏🏼
and standing up for what is good.
These are things we can do, if we keep our hearts open 🙏🏼
We are responsible for our hearts...
youtube.com/shorts/hTKOm... #poetry #writing #meditation #quotes
youtube.com/shorts/hTKOm... #poetry #writing #meditation #quotes
We Are Responsible For Our Hearts 🤍 #shorts #meditation #spirituality #palestine #gaza #israel #war
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We are responsible for our hearts...
youtube.com/shorts/hTKOm... #poetry #writing #meditation #quotes
youtube.com/shorts/hTKOm... #poetry #writing #meditation #quotes
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
— Voltaire
— Voltaire
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
— Voltaire
— Voltaire
The divisions in our heart
prevent us from healing
those that are in the world
Our wounds are peepholes
through which we can see
the wounds of others...
www.youtube.com/shorts/fK_mc...
prevent us from healing
those that are in the world
Our wounds are peepholes
through which we can see
the wounds of others...
www.youtube.com/shorts/fK_mc...
👁️ Our Wounds Are Peepholes to See the World 🌍#shorts #meditation #news #palestine #israel #war
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The divisions in our heart
prevent us from healing
those that are in the world
Our wounds are peepholes
through which we can see
the wounds of others...
www.youtube.com/shorts/fK_mc...
prevent us from healing
those that are in the world
Our wounds are peepholes
through which we can see
the wounds of others...
www.youtube.com/shorts/fK_mc...
The mind is full
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The mind is full
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
investigate, with tender curiosity, where flesh and spirit meet...
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
investigate, with tender curiosity, where flesh and spirit meet...
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM