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Yahia Lababidi
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Author of What Remains To Be Said (2025), 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail (2024) & 11 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations. Exploring art, spirit, and conscience. #WritingCommunity #BookSky https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 4d
#art by Sliman Mansour

Temporary escape, oil on canvas, 2018

#Palestine
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1h
"A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything, is silence."

— Antonio Porchia
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 5h
Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.”

A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...

Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.

#writing #philosophy #spirituality
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 21h
We got ready and showed our home.
The visitor thought: you live well.
The slum must be inside you. — Tomas Tranströmer
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
Remembrance (dhikr) is the door to mystical unveiling (kashf).

— Imam Al Ghazali
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hi, I'm Colin @oh-hi-colin.bsky.social · Sep 7
Stand with the oppressed against the oppressor. Heal with the broken against those who seek to break you.
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
An apocalyptic worldview is a veiled death wish.
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
Let not this worldly life deceive you…

#Quran
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
“Be good to orphans and the needy. Speak nicely to people. And help the poor.”

#Quran 2:83

#Islam
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
“Take [advantage of] your health before times of sickness, and [take advantage of] your life before your death.”

#Hadith
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli
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hi, I'm Colin @oh-hi-colin.bsky.social · 21d
One cannot stand with an oppressor and call oneself a Christian
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
“If we have no #peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

( #Art: Anton Smit)

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hi, I'm Colin @oh-hi-colin.bsky.social · 24d
The wisest words are usually followed by a question mark. Full stop.
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
Grateful to see this little film finding its way into the world 😊

youtu.be/ax6v01GCXSo?... #booksky #writing #author #writingcommunity #art #poetry #video
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
May we never cease to imagine Peace 🕊️ www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Labab...

#Oct7 #October7 #Israel #Gaza #Palestine
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
“So come, my friends, be not afraid
We are so lightly here
It is in love that we are made
In love we disappear”

— Leonard Cohen
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed...

—D.H. Lawrence
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
To try and carry the sum of all we know, in our minds and hearts, at all times...
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
🔥 Wilde & Nietzsche Meet

On the Contrary: The Great Contrarians arrives Oct 15 from Fomite Press.

Here’s a short video trailer that captures their dance of wit & wisdom:

🎥 youtu.be/ax6v01GCXSo?...

#OscarWilde #Nietzsche #Philosophy #Art #Poetry #LiteraryCulture #booksky #YahiaLababidi #Writing
On the Contrary: Wilde & Nietzsche | A Book for Lovers of Wit and Wisdom by Yahia Lababidi
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
"Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled,
made nothing?
Are you willing to be made nothing?
dipped into oblivion?
If not, you will never really change."

— D.H.Lawrence
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
Do not to close our hearts to refugees 🙏🏼
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
Make the attempt for one day only…
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
The violence of October 7 is part of ongoing dispossession and dehumanization.

Pity the 70,000 Palestinians that Israel has killed in revenge, mostly women and children. Read & learn:

overland.org.au/2025/06/thos... #Gaza #Palestine #news #Israel
Those to whom evil is done - Overland literary journal
What we need now is not more weapons or false neutrality. We need a reckoning. And we need imagination: a vision of coexistence built on equality, not exclusion. The idea that one people must disappea...
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
“You do not know what you will earn tomorrow.”

#Quran 31:34
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 3d
#Gratitude

Take nothing for granted. Even a rock will eventually surrender to the sea and love can slip away like sand through fingers.

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#love #poetry
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