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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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
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Each person enters the world called, like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.
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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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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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I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, Can I ask you a quick question? It's always, a quick question. Well, my answers are slow.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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Teachers today can't take to a child.
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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.
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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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