Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression,… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation. We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those… — James Hollis Copy Share
“Those who say that they know what kind of art they like, or what kind of god, or what kind of moral structure are… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken care of.… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“… but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go through it… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision” — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.” William Wordsworth,” — James Hollis Copy Share Image
In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
