"Our life is psychological, and the purpose of……" — James Hillman
"Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul."
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87 Quotes by James Hillman
James Hillman has 87 quotes on this site.
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need…
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for,…
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply…
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness…
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We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs…
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By seeing differently, we do differently
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I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch…
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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped…
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Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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More Connections Quotes
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one of 1,466 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
— Paul Auster
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that.…
— Matthew Barney
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
— Rachel Bilson
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In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if…
— Juliette Binoche
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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