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Shafa Yahya

@shafayahya.bsky.social
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🍃 nature lover • optimist ▪︎ curious learner • creative social entrepreneur • money educator www.shafayahya.com

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you." A cognitive scientist takes you on a tour of the reality you habitually miss www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/12/o...
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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
“Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.”
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Greater Good Education @greatergoodedu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Let’s build kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs! Be inspired and supported during a new, year-long virtual community of practice program with educators around the world! 🌍 Here are three themes we will be exploring. Thanks to @grantdraws.bsky.social for the amazing illustrations! #EduSky
Illustration of a smiling stick figure planting a tree with the word PURPOSEIllustration of a stick figure adult comforting a stick figure with a broken leg while sitting together on a bench and the word EMPATHYIllustration of someone looking up in wonder at beautiful colorful fall leaves with the word AWE
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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Education . . . has become an institution whose purpose in the modern world is not to make culture, not to serve the living cosmos, but to harness humankind to the dead forces of materialism. — Robert Sardello, Facing the World with Soul
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
How to think like a sunflower – poet, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry on turning conflict into collaboration www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/01/w...
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How to Think Like a Sunflower: Wendell Berry on Turning Conflict into Collaboration
“We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for …
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light." — Rumi
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Emerson, born on this day in 1802, on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/12/e...
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Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
“It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The story of the mad-genius pioneer who sparked the dawn of AI – which is really a story about what limits of logic liberate in us www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/02/l...
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A Brief History of the Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and How the Limits of Logic Can Liberate Us
“Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant perspective, because through it a higher order of being is …
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"All good things are wild and free." — Henry David Thoreau
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite... @greatergoodedu.bsky.social
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Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice
Embrace the beauty of your accent in this self-compassion meditation that guides you in a reflection of your history, heritage, and connection to your ancestors.
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
How Do We Go on Teaching in Troubling Times? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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How Do We Go on Teaching in Troubling Times?
Teacher and activist Parker J. Palmer offers steadying words of wisdom for today's educators in the United States.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted. —Mary Ellen Chase
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“A library is a rainbow in the clouds.” Maya Angelou, born on this day in 1928, on how a library saved her life
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Maya Angelou on How a Library Saved Her Life
“A library is a rainbow in the clouds.”
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart." — Maya Angelou
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’ve started writing on Substack, sharing insights on money management & financial behaviour. My first long-form piece explores how to balance caution & confidence when making financial decisions. 📖 Read here: open.substack.com/pub/shafayah... 💌 Subscribe to stay updated! Thank you✨️
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Smart Financial Decision-Making open.substack.com/pub/shafayah...
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Smart Financial Decision-Making
Balancing confidence with caution in personal finance decisions
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Ultimately, digital well-being is a journey. It is not a checklist that,once completed,means you are fulfilled. @greatergoodedu.bsky.social It's time for a digital detox! 30 days of no social media. Turning it off! Four Tips for a Successful Digital Detox greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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Four Tips for a Successful Digital Detox
These strategies can help you when you want to take a planned break from screen time or social media.
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Happiness Break: A Self-Compassion Meditation For Burnout greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite...
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Happiness Break: A Self-Compassion Meditation For Burnout
Feeling burned out? Join Dr. Kristin Neff as she guides us through a calming practice to bring kindness and support to ourselves during tough times.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
2,000 years later, this really works: A Stoic's key to peace of mind – Seneca on the antidote to anxiety
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Between science and magic – the enchanted physics of how hummingbirds hover at the edge of the possible
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Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. ~ Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home." ~ Rumi
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." Kahlil Gibran, born on this day in 1883, on friendship and the building blocks of meaningful connection
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Kahlil Gibran on Friendship and the Building Blocks of Meaningful Connection
“In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." Franz Kafka
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
"Intuition does not come to an unprepared mind." ~ Albert Einstein
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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Enchantment isn't just for childhood, but for all the days of our lives.
Enchantment conjures up the juices of vitality and a renewal of childhood, play, poetry, art, natural religious virtues, and community. Its characteristic emotion is joy, and its goal deep pleasure. It may be the tonic we're looking for as we seek out ways, chemical and therapeutic, to deal with the epidemic of depression that has become the characteristic soul sickness of modernism. Make a soulless world, and there is nothing in it to lift our spirits, nothing to give us daily meaningful experiences that render life worth living and make getting up in the morning a joy. An abstract philosophy or a moralistic injunction may motivate us toward certain behaviours with urgent and heavy-handed intensity, but modest, regular exposure to an enchanted world provides a light touch and a deep desire to live a full life.

By psychotherapist and Jungian analyst, Thomas Moore from his book, 'The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life'.
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Lilac Dreams. Making intentions to revisit and pick up childhood dreams next year 💜🦋✨️
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Welcome to WA on Bluesky as requested by you xx 'Breathing Space' by Janis Goodman
Etching of the silhouette of a bird seen from below flying in tbe sky surrounded by tree tops
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
"I am out with lanterns, looking for myself." - Emily Dickinson
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
Hope is the thing with feathers ~ Emily Dickinson
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Shafa Yahya @shafayahya.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
Hello, Blue Sky 💙🦋💦
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