“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a… — 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… — 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… — 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… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Outside and inside, life and soul, appear as parallels in “case history” and “soul history.” A case history is a biography of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an… — 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
