You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't… — 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
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
People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's… — 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
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
As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities:… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions… — 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
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
“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
