Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises. — James Hollis Ambiguity Copy Share Image
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves. — James Hollis Intimate Copy Share Image
There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists. — James Hollis Circles Copy Share Image
We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others. — James Hollis Feds 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… — James Hollis Healing Copy Share Image
“The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.” — James Hollis Accomplish Copy Share Image
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. — James Hollis Complexes Copy Share Image
“Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.” William Wordsworth,” — James Hollis River Copy Share Image
“The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need… — James Hollis Depth-psychology Copy Share Image
“Our mythology is full of heroic adventures—mountains climbed, ogres fought, dragons defeated—but it takes even more courage for a man to speak… — James Hollis Adventure Copy Share Image
“The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as… — James Hollis Ability Copy Share Image
As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That… — James Hollis Children Copy Share Image
“Walnut Trees of Altenburg: The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth… — James Hollis Astronomy Copy Share Image
Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there… — James Hollis Casual Copy Share Image
“third choice was to strike off toward some new projection—a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to… — James Hollis Addiction Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Chiefs Copy Share Image
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of… — James Hollis Community Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Certainty Copy Share Image
“This is an example of what Jung called “the regressive restoration of the persona,” namely, the re-identification with a former position, role,… — James Hollis Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“The modern family is one in which the divergent values of our separate souls are supported, valued, encouraged. Diversity is not just… — James Hollis Accepting love 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… — James Hollis Certainty Copy Share Image
Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society,… — James Hollis Anger Copy Share Image
“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken… — James Hollis Children Copy Share Image
“It is only when we welcome such spirits and give them entrance that they may reveal themselves to us. When we open… — James Hollis Communication Copy Share Image
“The search for fusion regularly gives rise to various symptoms. Our own psyche knows what is right for us, knows what is… — James Hollis Soul Mocked Copy Share Image
“Jung has so eloquently written of this biblical admonition: Acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the acid… — James Hollis Bible Copy Share Image
“These stories are real, the dreams are real, yet the dilemmas each person faces are founded on the presences that haunt from… — James Hollis Dreams Copy Share Image
In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals. — James Hollis Animal Copy Share Image
“David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision” — James Hollis Yeats Copy Share Image
“This is why Jung observed that the greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent.” — James Hollis Children Copy Share Image
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others. — James Hollis Becoming Copy Share Image
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer. — James Hollis Creating Copy Share Image
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as… — James Hollis Exterior Copy Share Image
“… but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go… — James Hollis Be here now Copy Share Image
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the… — James Hollis Consciousness 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… — James Hollis Approval Copy Share Image
The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that… — James Hollis Daddy Copy Share Image
The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling… — James Hollis Able Copy Share Image
