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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New online: my essay on Italian psychiatrist and polymath Roberto Assagioli's conviction that "we suffer from a repression of the sublime."
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November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
New online: my essay on Italian psychiatrist and polymath Roberto Assagioli's conviction that "we suffer from a repression of the sublime."
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
via @hedgehogreview.bsky.social #psychology #poetry #meditation #spirituality
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
via @hedgehogreview.bsky.social #psychology #poetry #meditation #spirituality
Every enmity with others is part of our unfinished work on ourselves;
a free person has no enemies.
a free person has no enemies.
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Every enmity with others is part of our unfinished work on ourselves;
a free person has no enemies.
a free person has no enemies.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New online: my essay on Italian psychiatrist and polymath Roberto Assagioli's conviction that "we suffer from a repression of the sublime."
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
via @hedgehogreview.bsky.social #psychology #poetry #meditation #spirituality
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
via @hedgehogreview.bsky.social #psychology #poetry #meditation #spirituality
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
New online: my essay on Italian psychiatrist and polymath Roberto Assagioli's conviction that "we suffer from a repression of the sublime."
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
via @hedgehogreview.bsky.social #psychology #poetry #meditation #spirituality
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
via @hedgehogreview.bsky.social #psychology #poetry #meditation #spirituality
The twin souls of Nietzsche & Oscar Wilde:
www.fomitepress.com/on-the-contr... #philosophy #booksky #poetry #writing #quotes
www.fomitepress.com/on-the-contr... #philosophy #booksky #poetry #writing #quotes
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The twin souls of Nietzsche & Oscar Wilde:
www.fomitepress.com/on-the-contr... #philosophy #booksky #poetry #writing #quotes
www.fomitepress.com/on-the-contr... #philosophy #booksky #poetry #writing #quotes
"Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea." — Beckett
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea." — Beckett
while in the midst of horror
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
while in the midst of horror
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
"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
youtu.be
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 🙏🏼