Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't… — 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
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or… — 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
Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned… — 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
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the… — James Hillman Copy Share
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a… — James Hillman Copy Share
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we… — James Hillman Copy Share
