Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.
We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others. - James Hollis
We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.
- James Hollis
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you. - James Hollis
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves. - James Hollis
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuat… - James Hollis
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuat…
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others. - James Hollis
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer. - James Hollis
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposi… - James Hollis
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposi…
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises. - James Hollis
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant t… - James Hollis
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant t…
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