dalai mandaō

paying homage to the principals of student loans, preaching aesthetics and prescribing western medicine

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

The best songs are less than 3 minutes, a thread--

[tyler @tbech44]

i am a:

⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 bridge

seeking:

⚪️ men
⚪️ women
🔘 urgent repairs

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

I am a lucky man.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

https://t.co/nJs9t0mK0c

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

The best songs are less than 3 minutes, a thread--

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

https://t.co/nUmDaNZk2s

This song hits because I listened to it on repeat after crushing Mt. Isolation (my first real White Mountain).

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

Even with therapy, to "know thyself" means to only know the tip of the iceberg. The more one attempts to know thyself, the more one can be an author of their own lives. Conflict will never cease however. We are, after all, human.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

What I have learned in the last two weeks of working at a psychonalytic hospital:
People have many defenses. Humor is one such defense. Defenses protect against unwanted feelings. Unwanted feelings are basal, primal urges of lust and murder.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

People are in constant conflict, guided by unconscious processes that have been projected to the present from the past in order to make sense of the world (minds are computational machines attempting to model and predict "what happens next"), a beautiful attempt at homeostasis.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

Self-enforcement of boredom may be my new exploration of discipline.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

The introduction of the internet into all facets of daily life, I think, has converted the shower into the sole container of deep thought. Boredom struggles to exist elsewhere, and boredom is the genesis of creation.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

Yupp that's how anxiety can work-- aware of the unknown and going right on towards it. Physiologic anxiety. Run towards, be aware.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

@thekitze I like the progression of the guy: millennial --> hipster --> young nuclear physicist --> end career organic chemist.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

@Aella_Girl Do people who take psychedelics believe it's possible to become addicted to psychedelics?

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

Art captures the soul. Music captures the soul. If it exists. It probably doesn't exist, but whatever music captures is pretty damn close.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

Childhood is a non-zero-sum game player in a zero-sum world.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

@ScenesFilms @lowkeyalbert

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

One of the most meaningful and sustaining things one can do with life -- volunteer time for someone else with the intent of improving circumstances (i.e. altruism) -- is inaccessible to many because "grindset" a.k.a. capitalism has commandeered attention just so one can survive.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

Artist. Diplomat. Guide.

[dalai mandaō @MethaqualoneJoe]

Narrative privilege. Going to be thinking about this.