RE: NAQUOYA'S BOOK REVIEWS | Where Epics Fail – Yahia Lababidi
Dear Scott, thank you, for the privilege of being seen and with such perception.
You have packed much in this aphoristic review, touching on all of my masters: Gibran, Rumi, Sufism, Tao te Ching, Blake, St John of the Cross, Humor, Silence...
In connection, I think of Rumi’s wise injunction to sell cleverness, and buy bewilderment. I have tried to do something like this, and not entirely consciously, in the decade or so that this book has been rewriting my spirit...
It’s deeply gratifying to know that what has sprung from my soul has reached/touched yours 🙏🏼
Stillness and the mystical way are, indeed, what I would most like to impart to the reader—I think you do a better job of communicating that in your penetrating review than other reviews I’ve received, so far (in big name news outlets...)
Thank you, for introducing my work to Steemit with such sensitivity, heart, and generosity (I will talk to my publishers about including your excellent review on the book’s website).
May you be seen and helped as you do others, brother. Gratefully, Yahia
Thank you for entrusting me with the opportunity to review your work for Steemit. It was a privilege, and one that ultimately surprised me, as you may have noticed from the review. Although I haven't read those works listed for many years, they made such an impact on me, that your words brought so much of that back to me, and reminded me of the value I once found in it. Somewhere between then and now I got burnt and jaded by many spiritual concepts. That is why that last quoted aphorism stood out so much.
It is a beautiful piece of work. I wish you every success in your endeavours with it.
To help you return to a safe harbor, somehow, means a great deal to hear. I, too, turned my back on much of this spiritual world until I received a call I could not refuse (as tender as a lover’s kiss).
That last saying that marked you was my jailbreak from a too limiting space and a late chance to rewrite the (victim/rebel) narrative that I was living in and step into the limitless...
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
—William Blake
Peace, Scott, all ways, Yahia