Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.... — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance… — 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
