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.

It's a good morning

All great love is above all its pity: for it seeketh—to create what is loved!

“Myself do I offer unto my love, AND MY NEIGHBOUR AS MYSELF”—such is the language of all creators.

All creators, however, are hard.—

Thus spake Zarathustra

إنّ عظيم الحبِّ يتسامى على الشفقة، لأن هدفه هو خلق من يُحِب.
"إنني أنذر نفسي لحبي، وكذلك يفعل أمثالي" هذا ما يقوله كل مبدع.
والمبدعون كلهم قُساة القلوب.
هكذا تكلم زرادشت...

إذا كان لك صديقٌ يتألم، فكُن ملجأً لآلامِه ولكن لا تبسط له فراشًا وثيرًا، بل فراشًا خشِنًا كالّذي يتوسّده المحارِبون، وإلا فما أنت مُجديه نفعًا

- هكذا تكلم زرادشت

Compare the quotes above to the one below:

"سيدي الكريم، سيدي الكريم، لا بد لكل إنسان من أنْ يجد أيضًا، في مكانٍ ما على الأقل، شخصًا يشفق عليه"

- الجريمة والعقاب 1

Night

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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: “I forgive you what you have done unto me; that you have done it unto YOURSELF, however—how could I forgive that!”

Thus speaks all great love: it surpasses even forgiveness and pity.

One should hold fast one’s heart; for when one lets it go, how quickly does one’s head run away!

- Thus spoke Zarathustra