“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to… — James Hollis Achieve Copy Share Image
“Those who say that they know what kind of art they like, or what kind of god, or what kind of moral… — James Hollis Art 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
“… 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
“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… — James Hollis Black 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
“Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.” William Wordsworth,” — James Hollis Spirituality 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
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
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Ancient 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The search for fusion regularly gives rise to various symptoms. Our own psyche knows what is right for us, knows what is… — James Hollis 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
We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece,… — James Hollis Add Copy Share Image
“Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb… — James Hollis Men Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis Adapted 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
“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
