In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.
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.
- James Hollis
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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