Yahia Lababidi
@ysl.bsky.social
Author of 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail & 11 other books
Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
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Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
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February 16, 2026 at 4:49 AM
One should, after a fashion, welcome and esteem the difficulties one encounters.
A difficulty is a lamp.
An inseparable, difficulty, a sun.
— Valéry
A difficulty is a lamp.
An inseparable, difficulty, a sun.
— Valéry
February 16, 2026 at 3:09 AM
One should, after a fashion, welcome and esteem the difficulties one encounters.
A difficulty is a lamp.
An inseparable, difficulty, a sun.
— Valéry
A difficulty is a lamp.
An inseparable, difficulty, a sun.
— Valéry
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
‘Do not see the faults of others, keep secret their wrongdoings, and advise them only when no one can hear.
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
‘Do not see the faults of others, keep secret their wrongdoings, and advise them only when no one can hear.
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
There are moments when my mind feels the essential and omnivorous appetite, which it turns against the All, like a tiger against the flock, but feeling a sort of uneasiness as well from not knowing what to go after, what particular pray to attack and sees.
— Paul Valéry
— Paul Valéry
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
There are moments when my mind feels the essential and omnivorous appetite, which it turns against the All, like a tiger against the flock, but feeling a sort of uneasiness as well from not knowing what to go after, what particular pray to attack and sees.
— Paul Valéry
— Paul Valéry
Not by wrath does one slay but by laughter.
Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
Nietzsche
Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
Nietzsche
February 16, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Not by wrath does one slay but by laughter.
Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
Nietzsche
Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
Nietzsche
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
It may be even be that outside of our own minds there is nothing at all corresponding to our concept of coming into existence once it is applied, not to relations between things, but to objects in themselves."
- #GeorgLichtenberg, 'Waste Books'
- #GeorgLichtenberg, 'Waste Books'
February 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
It may be even be that outside of our own minds there is nothing at all corresponding to our concept of coming into existence once it is applied, not to relations between things, but to objects in themselves."
- #GeorgLichtenberg, 'Waste Books'
- #GeorgLichtenberg, 'Waste Books'
'Yes, you must be here, and also, millions of light-years away. All at the same time…
◊
The mystics I like… the flame… which consumes all our filthy logic.'
— Samuel Beckett, Conversations with Charles Juliet
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The mystics I like… the flame… which consumes all our filthy logic.'
— Samuel Beckett, Conversations with Charles Juliet
February 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
'Yes, you must be here, and also, millions of light-years away. All at the same time…
◊
The mystics I like… the flame… which consumes all our filthy logic.'
— Samuel Beckett, Conversations with Charles Juliet
◊
The mystics I like… the flame… which consumes all our filthy logic.'
— Samuel Beckett, Conversations with Charles Juliet
“Religion is at its best when it becomes a countercultural force; when it has no power, only influence, no authority except that which it earns…”
— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
February 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
“Religion is at its best when it becomes a countercultural force; when it has no power, only influence, no authority except that which it earns…”
— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface."
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
February 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
"Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface."
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
'Await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity.” #Rilke
✨
'Slow is the experience of all deep wells: long must they wait before they know what fell into their depth.' #Nietzsche
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'Who serves best doesn't always understand.' #Milosz
( #Art: Agostino Arrivabene)
✨
'Slow is the experience of all deep wells: long must they wait before they know what fell into their depth.' #Nietzsche
✨
'Who serves best doesn't always understand.' #Milosz
( #Art: Agostino Arrivabene)
February 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
'Await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity.” #Rilke
✨
'Slow is the experience of all deep wells: long must they wait before they know what fell into their depth.' #Nietzsche
✨
'Who serves best doesn't always understand.' #Milosz
( #Art: Agostino Arrivabene)
✨
'Slow is the experience of all deep wells: long must they wait before they know what fell into their depth.' #Nietzsche
✨
'Who serves best doesn't always understand.' #Milosz
( #Art: Agostino Arrivabene)
#poetry by Mourid Barghouti dedicated to his wife Radwa Ashour, titled You and I:
“You’re beautiful like a liberated homeland
I’m exhausted like a colonized one.
You’re sad as a forsaken person, fighting on
I’m agitated as a war near at hand….”
“You’re beautiful like a liberated homeland
I’m exhausted like a colonized one.
You’re sad as a forsaken person, fighting on
I’m agitated as a war near at hand….”
February 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
#poetry by Mourid Barghouti dedicated to his wife Radwa Ashour, titled You and I:
“You’re beautiful like a liberated homeland
I’m exhausted like a colonized one.
You’re sad as a forsaken person, fighting on
I’m agitated as a war near at hand….”
“You’re beautiful like a liberated homeland
I’m exhausted like a colonized one.
You’re sad as a forsaken person, fighting on
I’m agitated as a war near at hand….”
Exiled Palestinian poet, Mourid Barghouti describes returning to #Palestine for the first time in three decades:
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
February 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Exiled Palestinian poet, Mourid Barghouti describes returning to #Palestine for the first time in three decades:
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
If religions are understood
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
February 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
If religions are understood
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
‘Do not see the faults of others, keep secret their wrongdoings, and advise them only when no one can hear.
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
‘Do not see the faults of others, keep secret their wrongdoings, and advise them only when no one can hear.
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
It has been deeply heartening to watch this post travel so widely over the past few days.
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
February 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
It has been deeply heartening to watch this post travel so widely over the past few days.
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
February 15, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
“Within each of us is a kingdom: the heart its sovereign, reason its counselor, anger its sentinel, desire its collector of dues.”
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
The Silence that Saved a Beloved Scholar – Islamic Horizons
A Meditation on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net
February 15, 2026 at 12:43 AM
“Within each of us is a kingdom: the heart its sovereign, reason its counselor, anger its sentinel, desire its collector of dues.”
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
As Much As You Can
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy - read by Yahia Lababidi
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February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
As Much As You Can
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry