James Hillman Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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• Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.

  James Hillman

  Karma, Spiritual, Discipline

  Gopi Krishna, James Hillman (1967). “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man”

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• Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

  James Hillman

  Attention, Firsts, Virtue

  James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.85, Routledge

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• The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

  James Hillman

  Angel, Environment, Moments

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• The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

  James Hillman

  Asbestos, Arms, Fantasy

  James Hillman, Laura Pozzo (1983). “Inter Views: Conversations With Laura Pozzp on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination and the State of the Culture”, Harpercollins

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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 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

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• We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

  James Hillman

  Planets

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• The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.

  James Hillman

  Self, Play, Mind

  James Hillman (1983). “Healing fiction”

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• To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

  James Hillman

  Despair, Demand, Expect Nothing

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• We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

  James Hillman

  Dull, Way, Live By

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• The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.

  James Hillman

  Book, Mean, Fate

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

  James Hillman

  Class, Environment, Biology

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.

  James Hillman

  Hands, White, Understanding

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• 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

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• All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

  James Hillman

  Birthday, Growing Up, School

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• It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.

  James Hillman

  Views, Journalism, Thirds

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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.

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  Animal, Reality, Men

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

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• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  James Hillman

  Depression, Dysfunction, Cold

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

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• We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

  James Hillman

  Oddities, Raises Questions, Curiosity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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

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• I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

  James Hillman

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

  James Hillman

  Calling, Way

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

  James Hillman

  Stars, Fall, Character

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