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Alaa ☕️

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What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

by Bruce D. Perry

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Alaa ☕️’s Quotes

“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”
― bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

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“شحبت روحي، صارت شفقا

شعت غيماً وسنا
كالدرويش المتعلق في قدمي مولاه أنا

أتمرغ في شجني
أتوهج في بدني
غيري أعمى، مهما أصغى، لن يبصرني
فأنا جسدٌ شجرٌ
شيء عبر الشارع
جزر غرقى في قاع البحر ....
حريق في الزمن الضائع
قنديل زيتي مبهوت
في أقصى بيت، في بيروت
أتألق حيناً. ثم أرنّق ثم أموت

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ويحي...

وأنا أتلعثم نحوك يا مولاي
أجرد أحزاني ....
أتجسد فيك
هل أنت أنا؟
يدك الممدودة أم يدي الممدودة؟
صوتك أم صوتي؟
تبكيني أم أبكيك؟

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في حضرة من أهوى

عبثت بي الأشواق

حدقت بلا وجه

ورقصت بلا ساق

وزحمت براياتي

وطبولي الآفاق

عشقي يفنى عشقي

وفنائي استغراق

مملوكك.... لكنـي

سلطان العشاق”
― محمد الفيتوري

tags: تصوف, درويش, عشق

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“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.”
― Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit

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“If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well.”
― Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

tags: avoidance, choices, dreams, gods, nightmares, power, powerful, pray, prey

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“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
― Viktor Frankl

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