The Gas Station Observatory is the brainchild of The Gentleman and The Scholar, an installation grounded on the pursuit of our best selves. We lost ourselves in the quicksand of fear and found safety in our inability to take responsibility for our lives. This is a place to share the rambling road we’re all on as we try to figure out how to use our maps.
“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…
“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…
“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…
“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,…
“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…
“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…
“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…
“Archetypes are images of the soul that represent the course of ones life.”Carl Jung Jung worked at an acclaimed asylum in Zurich when he started his work on the unconscious by trying to understand his patients. Freud worked with a drastically different population, notably middle-aged and upper class women in Vienna. While a different generation,…
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” Leo Tolstoy Well last post I said how I was going to talk about what “we’re swimming towards” but I got excited and wrote too much and decided to break it up into two parts. So here’s some stuff on life stages…
The overwhelming majority of people today are assailed by choices wherever they turn. How someone wants their coffee, their clothes, their love life, every aspect of an outward life can be customized. We equate these choices with love–the more specific the more meaningful. In fact, focusing on the customization of everything is what some might…