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
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the… — 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
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