Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting i…

- James Hillman

The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.

- James Hillman

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

- James Hillman

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

- James Hillman

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relation…

- James Hillman

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or c…

- James Hillman

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.

- James Hillman

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

- James Hillman

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

- James Hillman