James Hillman Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

  James Hillman

  Memories, Past, People

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

• 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 the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

  James Hillman

  Motherhood, Two, Order

  Source: scottlondon.com

• I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

  James Hillman

  Father, Mirrors, Childhood

  James Hillman, Michael Ventura (1992). “We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse”, Harpercollins

• As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

  James Hillman

  Parent, Soul, Body

• How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.

  James Hillman

  Mistake, Thinking, Parent

  Source: scottlondon.com

• The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten

  James Hillman

  Choices, Parent, Soul

• A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Dream, Country

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.

  James Hillman

  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  Source: scottlondon.com

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