Yahia Lababidi
@ysl.bsky.social
Author of 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail & 11 other books
Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
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February 17, 2026 at 3:42 AM
“…despite all the rigor and precision of his thinking, he was really a mystic at heart…”
— @gearyjames.bsky.social, The World in a Phrase (2nd edition) #booksky #poetry #philosophy #spirituality ❤️🔥
— @gearyjames.bsky.social, The World in a Phrase (2nd edition) #booksky #poetry #philosophy #spirituality ❤️🔥
February 17, 2026 at 1:34 AM
“…despite all the rigor and precision of his thinking, he was really a mystic at heart…”
— @gearyjames.bsky.social, The World in a Phrase (2nd edition) #booksky #poetry #philosophy #spirituality ❤️🔥
— @gearyjames.bsky.social, The World in a Phrase (2nd edition) #booksky #poetry #philosophy #spirituality ❤️🔥
“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
February 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM
“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jews Who Critique #Israel
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0... #news #Palestine
via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0... #news #Palestine
via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Jews Who Critique #Israel
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0... #news #Palestine
via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0... #news #Palestine
via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
“It is enough for a person to go through the first experience of uprooting, to become uprooted forever.”
— Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian poet
( Art by Naman Hadi,
Le Déraciné)
— Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian poet
( Art by Naman Hadi,
Le Déraciné)
February 17, 2026 at 12:11 AM
“It is enough for a person to go through the first experience of uprooting, to become uprooted forever.”
— Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian poet
( Art by Naman Hadi,
Le Déraciné)
— Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian poet
( Art by Naman Hadi,
Le Déraciné)
The occupation has created generations of us that have to adore an unknown beloved:
distant,
difficult,
surrounded by guards,
by walls,
by nuclear missiles,
by sheer terror.
— Mourid Barghouti
distant,
difficult,
surrounded by guards,
by walls,
by nuclear missiles,
by sheer terror.
— Mourid Barghouti
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
The occupation has created generations of us that have to adore an unknown beloved:
distant,
difficult,
surrounded by guards,
by walls,
by nuclear missiles,
by sheer terror.
— Mourid Barghouti
distant,
difficult,
surrounded by guards,
by walls,
by nuclear missiles,
by sheer terror.
— Mourid Barghouti
February 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Preparing for an upcoming poetry festival by reading this
February 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Preparing for an upcoming poetry festival by reading this
Remembering the Egyptian Revolution...
how, for an instant, we were able to access regions of the (collective) soul, only dreamt of before...
how, for an instant, we were able to access regions of the (collective) soul, only dreamt of before...
February 16, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Remembering the Egyptian Revolution...
how, for an instant, we were able to access regions of the (collective) soul, only dreamt of before...
how, for an instant, we were able to access regions of the (collective) soul, only dreamt of before...
#Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
— Shelley
( #photograph a young #BernieSanders reading Rimbaud during a Civil Rights sit-in )
— Shelley
( #photograph a young #BernieSanders reading Rimbaud during a Civil Rights sit-in )
February 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM
#Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
— Shelley
( #photograph a young #BernieSanders reading Rimbaud during a Civil Rights sit-in )
— Shelley
( #photograph a young #BernieSanders reading Rimbaud during a Civil Rights sit-in )
The tigers I slew.
It was the bed bugs that ate me up.
— Brecht
It was the bed bugs that ate me up.
— Brecht
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
The tigers I slew.
It was the bed bugs that ate me up.
— Brecht
It was the bed bugs that ate me up.
— Brecht
Society's praise can be cheaply secured, and almost all men are content with these easy merits; bu the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put them away.
— Emerson
— Emerson
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Society's praise can be cheaply secured, and almost all men are content with these easy merits; bu the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put them away.
— Emerson
— Emerson
Heartwarming to receive a note like this…
Below, is a link to the poems referred to:
dawnmena.org/during-a-gen...
#FreePalestine #poetry
Below, is a link to the poems referred to:
dawnmena.org/during-a-gen...
#FreePalestine #poetry
February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Heartwarming to receive a note like this…
Below, is a link to the poems referred to:
dawnmena.org/during-a-gen...
#FreePalestine #poetry
Below, is a link to the poems referred to:
dawnmena.org/during-a-gen...
#FreePalestine #poetry
For years, I’ve thought about distinction between Judaism & Zionism—cost of confusing a spiritual inheritance with blind allegiance to #Israel.
Grateful to @newstatesman1913.bsky.social for giving me space to explore this difficult, necessary conversation.
I hope it opens minds & softens hearts.
Grateful to @newstatesman1913.bsky.social for giving me space to explore this difficult, necessary conversation.
I hope it opens minds & softens hearts.
February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
For years, I’ve thought about distinction between Judaism & Zionism—cost of confusing a spiritual inheritance with blind allegiance to #Israel.
Grateful to @newstatesman1913.bsky.social for giving me space to explore this difficult, necessary conversation.
I hope it opens minds & softens hearts.
Grateful to @newstatesman1913.bsky.social for giving me space to explore this difficult, necessary conversation.
I hope it opens minds & softens hearts.
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
◊
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