Dinalith 🐉 🌕

Lost & Found

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

@visakanv if you condensed all of human history into one year, we started working and partying and fighting and loving somewhere around 12am on January 1st

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Everything is hard and no one cares.

“I’m sorry that accomplishing your dreams wasn’t fast, easy and risk-free.” — @AlexHormozi

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

Harvesting psychic petroleum from psychic dinosaur fossil

[Novelle art. @artistryhere]

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[rachel (is sending love and warmth your way) @rachelclif]

I think a fundamental part of what makes dating and relationships feel harmonious is the willingness to fall in love with (and by implication, to love) the person in front of you

without attachment to outcomes

if you're going in seeking something, you're not really able to be present. likewise, if you're scanning for threats or Reasons Someone Isn't Right For You, you're de facto acting from fear and constriction, which doesn't feel good for you or the other person

going on a date is supposed to be enjoyable! and I think it's very possible to find literally anyone enjoyable to spend time with 1:1 if you take the approach of wanting and choosing to, independent of anything else

big picture: I think it's possible to have a great time with someone who isn't a long-term fit for you without compromising your discernment or doing anything that doesn't feel right for you :)

and I want to see more people do it!

[blue @bluewmist]

i just read a post that said "life becomes so beautiful when you realise that one step backwards is also the part of the dance" holyyyy fuckkkkk

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

AI Alignment is just Theology for Computers

[Rota 🚪🧎‍♂️ @pli_cachete]

For the love of God stop trying to do it alone. So much of change comes from the perspective created by seeing & being seen by another.

Doing it alone, you’re liable to become far too confident and limited in your perspective. The affordances and vividness of the world collapses & you start crafting imaginary towers in the sky based on some faulty, unquestioned belief. You lose the ability to recognize that there are other options than doubling down on what you’ve been doing over and over.

It’s possible to get perspective on your own, but it is extremely difficult. It requires a lot of patience, persistence, & honesty. Much easier (and more fun!) to come to others

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

No one talks about the Consciousness Relationship Gap

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

There are tunnels everywhere for those with eyes to see

[River Kenna @the_wilderless]

Arranging iron filings in perfect imitation of a magnetic field will never create a magnetic field

Dropping iron filings into a magnetic field will naturally, inevitably arrange them to express its shape

This is how literally everything works

[signüll @signulll]

as a man, you want to be evaluated in a setting you define. not in someone else’s marketplace, not in a feed. & certainly not on some dumb app.

basically you want to make sure it’s not in a room where the ranking system rewards the shallowest possible read of you, like a police lineup.

what you need a backdrop that reveals what is actually compelling about you like your taste, your judgment, your discipline, your humor, your presence, & most important your way of seeing the world.

if you let modern systems define the frame, they will reduce you to the most superficial version of yourself & then judge you for it.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

disliked by losers. envied by the mediocre. dismissed by idiots. judged by the insecure. doubted by cowards.

all good signs.

[the Rich @Duderichy]

you can make yourself miserable by overthinking every social dynamic and interaction in your life

most people are good and well meaning

focusing on the big stuff has far greater returns than worrying about texting norms

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

People are portals

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

resistance dissolves when it is fully inhabited; the most fundamental skill for moving through your inner obstacles is presence

but presence is difficult, humble, unglamorous work, so we avoid it

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

@reconfigurthing "Direction is equally as important as speed, if not more so."

[Dinalith 🐉 🌕 @alinekaeri]

Lights come from the eyes

[Vacha @TVachaW]

One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to commit - solemnly and sincerely - to *always* loving yourself.

At all times and under all circumstances.

To treat that commitment like a wedding vow, with the same seriousness you’d give to an important promise you’ve made to a lover.

To love yourself when you’re lazy, when you’re weak, and when you fall pray to your most frustrating vices and compulsions.

To love yourself when you are envious, when you are scared, and when you feel like a failure.

To make this promise doesn’t mean that you will never falter or flail in fulfilling it.

This is the paradox of self-love: to be utterly committed to loving yourself and utterly committed to forgiving yourself when you fail to do so.

But just making that commitment in itself is powerful.

Not just to hope to love yourself, or to believe that loving yourself would be a good thing or to love yourself when you behave in ways you deem lovable.

But to commit, to promise, to vow to love yourself, unconditionally at your worst and weakest and most ugly.

I think many people worry that if they give themselves unconditional love, then they will lose the motivation to grow or address behaviours that don’t align with their highest values.

But I don’t find this to be the case at all.

I believe most of our unaligned behaviours are grounded in shame and self-hatred, not love.

Love is an energizing, illuminating and healing force.

My experience is that all our apparent flaws actually contain deep seeds of wisdom in them; this wisdom simply gets lost in the darkness of self-rejection.

In the light of love, these lost parts can see where they’re going again and naturally grow towards that light.

We sometimes think that we have to wait until we feel lovable to love ourselves.

But the truth is that when we love ourselves - truly and unconditionally - our heart reveals its infinitely lovable nature: here, now, already.

[Ava @noampomsky]

concept of someone who’s cursed with perfect knowledge but really bad delivery

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

True individuality requires vigilance: