Iman Mohamed
@iman
storyteller, strategist, lover of rest and play
Iman Mohamed
practicerestinleisure.substack.com
In Celtic spirituality, we find a new bridge between the visible and the invisible; this comes to expression beautifully in its poetry and blessings. These two worlds are no longer separate. They flow naturally, gracefully and lyrically in and out of each other. A BLESSING FOR THE SENSES May your body be blessed. May you realize that your body is a
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
I love this idea of spirituality binding the sensual in both the invisible and the visible. Expressed through our personhoodm, mind body and soul
With this triumph of positivity, the roughness of the demanding boss gives way to the smoothness (a key Han term) of the relentlessly encouraging coach. On this view, depression is the definitive malaise of the achievement society: the effect of being always made to feel that we’re running hopelessly behind our own ego-ideal, exhausting ourselves... See more
Oliver Balch • Thought-tinkering – the Korean German philosopher Byung-Chul Han | Aeon Essays
Instead of being bossed around (“you must”), we now drive ourselves with “you can” positivity — and collapse under the pressure. Han argues this shift from superego guilt to ego‑ideal positivity fuels burnout and depression, because we’re constantly chasing an unattainable ideal
Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
On eroticism as a means to make decisions.
When we can begin to tap into the deep vessel of who we truly are, so many things would end about oppression. I believe the powers that be don’t want us rested because they know that if we rest enough, we are going to figure out what is really happening and overturn the entire system. Exhaustion keeps us numb, keeps us zombie-like, and keeps us on... See more
The Founder of the Nap Ministry on the Ways Rest Can Be a Form of Resistance
Fascism and the Failure of Imagination
Fascism and the Failure of Imagination
Why are we so afraid of imagination?
When something stirs beneath reason. When you want something – or someone – without being able to explain why, and you choose to move toward it. That is the erotic decision. The moment that cracks open the script you have been given and offers you, terrifyingly, an alternative. Not necessarily better, certainly not safer.... but alive . And that is... See more
Tamara • Erotic Decisions
erotic decision is a beautiful thought
No matter how unpleasant or unequal, a breakup is at least something you share with someone else. Rejection makes only one reject. “Unrequited love does not die,” writes Elle Newmark in The Book of Unholy Mischief , “it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and... See more
Tony Tulathimutte • The Rejection Plot
"I have put here all the things I have wanted to write all my life. This is 'the book'... Having done this, I can do anything I want."
In East of Eden, the characters deeply question and ponder over the meaning of the word “timshel”, and finally understand it to translate most accurately as “you may”. This, in the context of the story, is an... See more
you've got more of a choice than you think
The idea of “you may” connects or reminds me of Pablo Coelho’s The Alchemist and “maktub”, in the sense that you can choose what kind of person you want to be, and how to act, and if you have faith in the divine, what is written for you will be delivered to you as you ask of it. Action, accountability and faith connection.