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“We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.”
-- James Hillman
#Ideas #Things Change
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“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”
-- James Hillman
#Safe #Losing #Habit
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“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
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“Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.”
-- James Hillman
#People #Imagination #Entertainment
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“Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your mind's been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.”
-- James Hillman
#Eye #Reflection #Talking
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“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”
-- James Hillman
#Childhood #Way #Determined
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“Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.”
-- James Hillman
#Who I Am #Path #Sooner Or Later
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“The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.”
-- James Hillman
#Soul #Watches #Rewards
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“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.”
-- James Hillman
#Love #Imagination #Boredom
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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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“It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.”
-- James Hillman
#Letting Go #People #Important
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“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.”
-- James Hillman
#New York #Imagination #People
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“Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem”
-- James Hillman
#Secret Love #Focus #Going Away
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“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
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“You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.”
-- James Hillman
#Blessed #Blessing #People
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“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
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“Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.”
-- James Hillman
#Time #Loss #Soul
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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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“Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.”
-- James Hillman
#Psychology #Soul #Stories
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“Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.”
-- James Hillman
#Psychology #Needs #Awakening
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“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...”
-- James Hillman
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“I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.”
-- James Hillman
#Thinking #Miserable #Economics
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“Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.”
-- James Hillman
#Dream #Wander #Who You Are
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“You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.”
-- James Hillman
#Bliss #Follow Your Bliss
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“We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?”
-- James Hillman
#Children #Kids #Doctors
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“It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.”
-- James Hillman
#Letting Go #Angel #Firsts
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“Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.”
-- James Hillman
#Depression #Doors #Kind
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“From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.”
-- James Hillman
#Perspective #Depth #Connections
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“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
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“We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.”
-- James Hillman
#Inspirational #Goal #Vices
