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James Hillman Inspirational Quotes (65)

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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.
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We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.
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I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those troublemakers early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers.
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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.
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We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
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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.
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I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time no one has any leisure.
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I'm cautious about a lot of words
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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.
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