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James Hillman quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

James Hillman quotes: I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

James Hillman quotes: The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

James Hillman quotes: 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.

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 quotes: If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

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

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

James Hillman quotes: I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

James Hillman quotes: Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

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

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

James Hillman quotes: Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

James Hillman quotes: I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche ...

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche ...

James Hillman quotes: Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

James Hillman quotes: Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there's usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there's usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

James Hillman quotes: Our dreams recover what the world forgets.

Our dreams recover what the world forgets.

James Hillman quotes: It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

James Hillman quotes: We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

James Hillman quotes: The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

James Hillman quotes: By seeing differently, we do differently

By seeing differently, we do differently

James Hillman quotes: Anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing ...

Anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing ...

James Hillman quotes: We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

James Hillman quotes: We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

James Hillman quotes: Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

James Hillman quotes: Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

James Hillman quotes: I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

James Hillman quotes: To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

James Hillman quotes: Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us ...

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us ...

James Hillman quotes: Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

James Hillman quotes: It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

James Hillman quotes: Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver's seat.

Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver's seat.

James Hillman quotes: What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

James Hillman quotes: I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

James Hillman quotes: Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

James Hillman quotes: We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

James Hillman quotes: Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

James Hillman quotes: Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.

Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.

James Hillman quotes: I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

James Hillman quotes: In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

James Hillman quotes: To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

James Hillman quotes: By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

James Hillman quotes: I'm cautious about a lot of words.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

James Hillman quotes: To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

James Hillman quotes: We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

James Hillman quotes: I don't have answers. I have questions.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

James Hillman quotes: The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

James Hillman quotes: It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

James Hillman quotes: Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

James Hillman quotes: We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

James Hillman quotes: Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

James Hillman quotes: Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.

Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.

James Hillman quotes: Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path ... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path ... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

James Hillman quotes: Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

James Hillman quotes: You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

James Hillman quotes: 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

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 quotes: I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

James Hillman quotes: It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

James Hillman quotes: Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

James Hillman quotes: The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

James Hillman quotes: It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

James Hillman quotes: What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

James Hillman quotes: The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

James Hillman quotes: Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

James Hillman quotes: Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

James Hillman quotes: The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman quotes: The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

James Hillman quotes: Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

James Hillman quotes: We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

James Hillman quotes: Sometimes we act in order not to see.

Sometimes we act in order not to see.

James Hillman quotes: My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

James Hillman quotes: I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

James Hillman quotes: Teachers today can't take to a child.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

James Hillman quotes: An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

James Hillman quotes: I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

James Hillman quotes: Miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately,

Miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately,