So every now and then, leave your room (literally and metaphorically). Go outside. Get sweaty, or get cold. Pet a cat, or catch a dragonfly. Refill the mansions of mind and memory with new souvenirs from the outer world, and rejoice in them.

It's been fun

As the 1st post in the channel says, don't take life too seriously (and especially, don't take my posts too seriously)

There will be no more posts for the next few... who knows...

Life is fundamentally a struggle against a chaotic, cold, and dead universe. A living organism is that which has the instinct for struggle; the primitive desire to endure and prevail over its environment, over other organisms, and even over the parts of its own self that are dead and useless.

Nothing is more poetic, nor reveals eternal truths about life than a small plant growing through the cracks, against the backdrop of a harsh environment.

قُساةٌ مُحبّوك الكثيرونَ إنَّهم ‏يرونكَ إنْ لم تَلتَهِبْ غيرَ نافع الجواهري

قُساةٌ مُحبّوك الكثيرونَ إنَّهم
‏يرونكَ إنْ لم تَلتَهِبْ غيرَ نافع

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القباب الصفر - غالية بنعلي

by the mid-eleventh century, Muslims were hard at work on three great cultural projects, pursued respectively by scholar-theologians, philosopher-scientists, and Sufi mystics: to elaborate Islamic doctrine and law in full; to unravel the patterns and principles…