There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling. The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often… — James Hillman Copy Share
It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on “Jung and Marx.” [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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