Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."
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
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
The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.
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
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?
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. - James Hillman
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
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
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relation…
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
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…
Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself. - James Hillman
Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.
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
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.
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
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.
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