Symbolized
“Symbols are metaphors for the eternal in the forms of the transient.”
Oskar Doering
A Simple Choice
“Man conquers the world by conquering himself”Zeno of Citium Last post I went mystical as I find myself leaning more into that, but I thought I should do a post on the two beliefs that saved me from myself in my 20s. Trouble with those truths is their slippery. The more down I was the…
A Questionable Path
“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. “Rilke Mother’s molds:Our…
Pliable Saplings
“The greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent”.Carl Jung Grounded in Fear You know how last post we went into how fear kind of runs things for a lot of guys and we don’t even know it? We act one way without realizing we might have scared ourselves into…
Blind Truths
“Let the secrets of men be told. They are the Lilliputian threads that will bind the giant.”James Hollis Forced LawsI talked earlier about the way the patriarchy insidiously affects everyone, and I feel infinitely more qualified to talk about how it affects men so want to start with that. Men are prescribed laws in society,…
Wheaties on Wise Old Trails
“Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakens” – C.G. Jung Hey everyone! I had a healing weekend in Houston, chock full of amazing blues and dive bars, where the Gentleman and I met up with our friend to unite the Trash Trio and send him off to live across the world. It helped shake…
Uncertain Truths
“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul”Hermes Trismegistus Certain Uncertainty: One thing that growing older has taught me is that going forward in life is so much easier when you are uncertain about things. You don’t hold so solidly onto beliefs that you can’t be sure about. We…
Two Halves
“You are a slave to what you need in your soul.”Carl Jung The Other SexWe have gone over our Hyde’s and Grover’s, through currents of spiced wheat fields and roots to discover ourselves. Paradoxically enough, the deeper you knowingly immerse yourself into the collective that all people share, the more you will discover and be…
Why Hyde?
“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”Robert Louis Stevenson’s Let’s look today at Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll was an esteemed scientist who created a potion to let out Mr. Hyde, a monster of a man who was purely selfish and barbaric. Jekyll…
Half-Frosted Wheats
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” The Gospel of Thomas Well my mini-wheats, we are still sailing on, but I misjudged as a new captain and we…