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Yahia Lababidi
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Author of 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail, What Remains To Be Said & 11 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations.

👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG

Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
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“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.”

— Miles Davis
When the fishhook of #Love catches you, God will begin to reel you in, slowly.

#Rumi, Fihe ma Fih
February 14, 2026 at 12:41 PM
“When #writing aphorisms… seeing something and saying something happen at the same time.”

@gearyjames.bsky.social , The World in a Phrase

#booksky #quote
February 14, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
“Aphorists are far from harmless. They are troublemakers and iconoclasts, dogmatists whose majestic authority commands consent. They are, by definition, revolutionaries who hold their truths to be self-evident.”

@gearyjames.bsky.social
#booksky
January 31, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
February 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Do not judge God‘s world from your own. Trim your hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window-box.

— Lichtenberg
February 14, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Simple dinner 👨‍🍳

#health #food #foodie #photography #recipe
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly swatter.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
February 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Making objects
Out of thoughts
Making more
By thinking not.

Leonard Cohen
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
"A kite is a contract of glory
that must be made with the sun,
so you make friends with the field
the river and the wind,
then you pray the whole cold night before,
under the travelling cordless moon,
to make you worthy and lyric and pure."

Leonard Cohen

youtu.be/qOUAbxF1GKM?... #poetry #video
a kite is a victim
YouTube video by alfriedaproductions
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 12:21 AM
If you accept you do not own anything, then you realize you cannot lose anything, either.
February 14, 2026 at 12:17 AM
"When it all went down.
And the pain came through.
I get it now.
I was there for You"

#LeonardCohen

t.co/9j5ENIuqP2 #soundcloud #music #poetry
https://m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababidi/there-for-you-by-leonard-cohen
t.co
February 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
'We are never "lost". Only on a secret mission so secret that we don't even know what it is...yet.'

— Lee Weissman
February 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Proud to see my grandpa, composer & poet whom I’m named after — Yahya Lababidi (1900-1943) — featured, here:

📷 #Palestine #Photography Project:

www.palestinephotoproject.org

PS — He’s the tall, dapper one 📷

#History
February 14, 2026 at 12:05 AM
This is a life #philosophy in a handful of words, braiding ethics and aesthetics. In a word: discernment.

“All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.”

— Nietzsche

#quote #art
February 13, 2026 at 11:58 PM
This year, the Christian season of #Lent (Ash Wednesday) and the Islamic holy month of #Ramadan begin on the same day, February 18, 2026.

Here are words that we might all reflect on:
February 13, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Farm life 🇨🇴

#photography
February 13, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Aphorisms :

Genuine progress moves backwards to first principles.

A good teacher is a good hinter.

For the poet, ambiguity is a wider precision.

You never get anywhere unless you go too far.

A window is the cruelest wall.

—Steven Henry Miller, Makings
February 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Sometimes, #Love is
biting our tongue—
until it bleeds🩸
February 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The #art of not #reading
February 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
May this #Ramadan be one in which our tongues are moist with Remembrance (dhikr).
February 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Spirituality: the art of harnessing almost-unbearable sensations.
February 13, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
Thank you, I needed to hear that.
February 13, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Spiritual adventures require great courage!
February 13, 2026 at 12:12 AM
..leaps of faith and safety nets are incompatible..
February 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
After a long cold spell, able to enjoy the sunset, again …
February 12, 2026 at 11:03 PM