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
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out.… — 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
What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to… — 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
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my… — 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… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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
