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

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James Hillman Despair Hope

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

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James Hillman Psyche Soul

...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

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James Hillman Identity Self Self Knowledge Soul

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

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James Hillman Psychology Soul

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

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James Hillman Soul Wounds

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

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James Hillman Character Jung Psychology

Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.

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James Hillman Fatalism Individuation Journey

Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life - and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.It has much to do with feelings of uniqueness, of grandeur and with the restlessness of the heart, its impatience, its dissatisfaction, its yearning. It needs its share of beauty. It wants to be seen, witnessed, accorded recognition, particularly by the person who is its caretaker. Metaphoric images are its first unlearned language, which provides the poetic basis of mind, making possible communication between all people and all things by means of metaphors

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James Hillman Jung Metaphor Myth

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

~ James Hillman

James Hillman Student Embrace Minds

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

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James Hillman Life World Walk

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

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James Hillman Know Hard Very

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

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James Hillman Children Home Culture

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?

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James Hillman Doctor People Way

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

James Hillman Changes American Believe
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