James Hillman Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human
  condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.

  James Hillman

  Character, Years, Soul

• How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

  James Hillman

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  James Hillman (1972). “The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology”, p.92, Northwestern University Press

• Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

  James Hillman

  Soul, Connections, Purpose

• The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.

  James Hillman

  Soul, Watches, Rewards

• Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

  James Hillman

  Psychology, Soul, Stories

  James Hillman (1972). “The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology”, p.16, Northwestern University Press

• We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

  James Hillman

  Soul, Forget, Ancestor

• 'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.

  James Hillman

  Mean, Class, Clothes

• It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth.

  James Hillman

  Struggle, Character, Fate

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.11, Ballantine Books

• Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

  James Hillman

  Expression, Soul, Symptoms

• The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, Self, Medicine

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

  James Hillman

  Mean, Loss, Soul

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

• Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.

  James Hillman

  Animal, Reality, Men

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

• Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

  James Hillman

  Moving, Ideas, Our World

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

• Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

  James Hillman

  Time, Loss, Soul

• 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

• Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

  James Hillman

  Soul, Way, Problem

• Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

  James Hillman

  Struggle, Soul, Darkness

• Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.

  James Hillman

  Dream, Morning, Two

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

• Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.

  James Hillman

  Men, Psychology, Soul

  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

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