Rudra Dakini positive loop - 31/100 poems Tricia Pickren The descent, having faith. MAGE THE COURAGEOUS {❤️‍🔥} flavor.

a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually changing inner states of consciousness, a longing for the unbounded and the indefinable, for perpetual movement and change, an effort to return to the

I bang on a lot about context (places, 'containers') and collectives (gathering, group re-attunement, rituals, rites), but in case it's not obvious, that's just one side of the see-saw... Thread of other-side things I believe are true, too:

tech bro is a dumb slur. techne is a virtue, literally referring to "art, craft, and skill". brotherhood is a virtue - the bonds between brothers are beautiful and worthy of reverence. you are making fun of technical skill and brotherhood. a brotherhood of technical mastery.

tangent, but “if they can misunderstand me to direct me to their own preferences, they will” is an EXACT type of guy

“There is a benign haunting in poetic tradition, … particularly the new poet’s fear that there is little left for her or him to do. In truth, there is everything remaining to be thought and sung, provided an individual voice is attained.” —Harold Bloom

"Meet me half way - buy a ticket" There are truths you will not begin to understand unless you are willing to buy a ticket

Insight timer is effective because getting trapped in their endless growth/engagement experiments awakens you to the nature of samsara

Too many people with an enduring passion for art and thought fit poorly or not at all within the current system, isolating them from the peers and mentors they need to flourish. This is why the Avalon Institute was created.

The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.” I’ve always loved the quote, because it so simply encapsulates our situation as the newest members of the human species: We enter the world with fine tuned powers

I often imagine chat is leeloo, learning just how much pain there is out there

My Updated Guide To The "Live Near Friends" Movement Some people wanna live near their friends and family. They had it in college, and then in dense cities post college. Then maybe they move to the suburbs. And their friends move to other cities for jobs or relationships. But

Prospective Immigrants Please Note — Adrienne Rich

bicycles are joy generating magic machines, divinely inspired and deeply humanistic, elegant and timeless, a pinnacle of human-machine interface symbiosis