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You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

James Hillman

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James Hillman
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 12
Died: 2011
Died: October 27
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Bliss
Follow
Going

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Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time no one has any leisure.
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The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?
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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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We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
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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.
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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
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We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
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