Want Quotes by James Hillman

9 Want quotes by James Hillman

James Hillman’s nine concise reflections on wanting delve into the mythic undercurrents of longing. He writes with a depth that feels both scholarly and poetically resonant.

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Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have…

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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal…

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We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back…

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All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer,…

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I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world.…

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One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want…

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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of…

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Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the…

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Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn…

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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.

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Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the…

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“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…

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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

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There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular…

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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

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The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.…

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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.…

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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…

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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the…

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The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a…

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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we…

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