“Politics are masks. One falls after the other and one never knows the true face, while the arts, they are honest and everlasting” - Yousef Kohzad

Sagittarius is the symbolic figure of Isfahan, Iran and has been for centuries. It appears prominently in various works of art throughout the city, including the examples shown here. Two of these Archers are famously mirrored on the Qeysarie Gate, a historic gateway marking the

The winter solstice is when darkness reaches maximum power and immediately begins losing, which means the only way light ever wins is by letting darkness go all the way first

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. - Simone Weil

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

🚨: Nobel prize winner physicists, Roger Penrose says the Big Bang was not the beginning of our universe, rather it was the end of the previous one

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Things will happen around you that make zero sense. People will treat you in a way that’s completely unwarranted. Circumstances will arise that were completely unexpected. Tests will strike that you were completely unprepared for. Just focus on turning all of the above into

Any person with a brain and a heart would watch this and conclude that the US has become a danger to humanity. You may want to deceive yourself and find all kinds of excuses but deep down you know this is true

Similarities between Israel's bombing of Gaza and Tehran are growing stronger. In both cases, it appears Israel is using AI without any human oversight. For instance, Israel has bombed a park in Tehran called "Police park." It has nothing to do with the police. But it appears

It took 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban It took 36 years to replace Khamenei with Khamenei

I can’t brag about my love for God because I fail Him daily, but I can brag about His love for me because it never fails.

From ancient empires to modern militaries, invaders have practiced “culturecide”. The destruction of cultural heritage is often not collateral damage, but part of the logic of war. Our latest on #Iran with Ibrahim Al-Marashi for ⁦National Interest⁩ nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-ea…

A library is one of the few places left that asks nothing of you. No purchase. No performance. No expectation. Just presence. They are infrastructure for imagination. Protect libraries at all cost. And wherever you can, build them.

The self that has forgotten God does not become free. It becomes available to whoever needs a slave.

You will be free once you realize the cage is made of thoughts

"Any attempt to make a better world with spiritually stunted people will fail—because spiritually stunted people chase shallow, hedonistic values, and a noble society can be built only by those whose lives are oriented toward spiritual excellence." theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

My story on displaced Afghans, from a while back.

What does it actually mean to know a person? To be known about is informational. But to be known is something else entirely. It is to be understood in essence — your values, your desires, your little habits, the things that shape you over time. plumpits.substack.com/p/the-thrill-o…