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
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack… — 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 morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange… — 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
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul. — 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
The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. — 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
Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — 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
