What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

فإذا وقَفتُ أمامَ حُسنِكِ صامتًا
فالصمتُ في حَرَمِ الجَمالِ جَمالُ
كلماتُنا في الحبِّ .. تَقتُل حبّنا
إنّ الحروفَ تموتُ حينَ تُقالُ

In the Buddhist tradition, it is said that whenever Buddha was asked about the existence of the gods, the nature of Nirvana, and the eternity of the world, he would always remain silent, indicating that his teachings are (1) pragmatic: he merely wanted to teach humans how to end suffering, and (2) whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into words.
The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be framed at all, it is also possible to answer it.

The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem.
(Is not this the reason why those who have found after a long period of doubt that the sense of life became clear to them have then been unable to say what constituted that sense?)

— Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
By Ludwig Wittgenstein

On the significance of humor

Everything about the place repels me. The stiffness, the artificiality, the self-satisfaction of the people. The university atmosphere nauseates me.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

مو شرط أبنيه، حتى لو إيجار

William Barrett writes, “August 1914 shattered the foundations of [the] human world. It revealed that the apparent stability, security, and material progress of society had rested, like everything human, upon the void. European man came face to face with himself as a stranger.” Barrett is not alone in this reading of history. The world war and post–world war years are conventionally thought of as a time when the West’s optimism and faith in development, progress and rationality came into question.

- Laughing At Nothing

Crawling inward (n.)

¹ When the outer world feels too dangerous, despair-inducing, and grim, one seeks shelter by crawling inwards into one's own mind and inner world where they think it will be calmer and less dangerous

² The state of hyperfixation on one's inner world. One is curled up inside his mind, and can see nothing but his mind through his mind's eye. The outside world becomes a mere background noise and a stormy weather outside the narrow windows of the inner world.

When one "lives inside his own head," he gradually loses contact with the outer world. The inner demons and haunting houses become larger than they really are, gloomier than they really are. Corpses and tombs in the graveyards of memory are unearthed. And windmills start to look uncannily like giant monsters.

Just like if you put your thumb too close to your eye, it can block even the sun; if you look too close at your own thoughts, they can block the outer world.

Therefore, what we call overthinking is simply "mental tunnel-vision" or "mental shortsightedness." You can only see the things in front of you, and too close to you, i.e. you only focus on your inner world and its content, failing to see the rest of the visual field.

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.

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Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language

~John Brown