Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is… — 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
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand… — 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
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — 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 like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and… — 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
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the… — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the… — James Hillman Copy Share
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a… — James Hillman Copy Share
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we… — James Hillman Copy Share
