Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. — 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
You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each… — 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
It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person… — 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
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
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
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — 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
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — 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
