In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the… — 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 saying that they like what kind of art, god, structure they know, that is that which makes them feel more comfortable. Being pried free of spiritual constraint is the gift doubt brings. The suppression of doubt… — James Hollis Copy Share
“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken care of. We all are recovering children who project the dynamics of intrapsychic parent onto an institution, an ideology ...Growing up is ever more difficult because it requires letting go of old expectations of rescue and redemption. We… — James Hollis Copy Share
“… 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 of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided… — James Hollis Copy Share
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 act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the… — James Hollis Copy Share
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
