خَلعتُ ثوبَ اصطِبارٍ كانَ يَستُرنُي
وبانَ كِذبُ ادِعائي أنَّني جَلِد

بكَيتُ حتَّى بكا من ليسَ يعرِفُني
ونُحتُ حتَّى حكاني طائرٌ غَرِد

- الجواهري

Bollenhut (ball-hat) worn by unmarried women in black forest (Schwartzwald), Germany.

A traditional black forest farmhouse (Schwartzwald Bauernhaus)

أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلَٰهَهُ هَوَاهُ

[سورة الجاثية]

The stress-response is about preparing your body for an explosive burst of energy consumption right now; psychological stress is about doing all the same things to your body for no physical reason whatsoever. Exercise finally provides your body for the outlet that it was preparing for.

- Robert Sapolsky

إنْ شرگت وانْ غربت
خوجة علي... ملا علي

31/7

A reminder that stupidity and misery are contagious

Beware Infection; Avoid the Unhappy and the Unlucky

- Robert Greene

"People nowadays think, scientists are there to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc, to entertain them. That the latter have something to teach them; that never occurs to them."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value[1939-1940], p.87.