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I'm cautious about a lot of words

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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
Cautious
Words

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You are born with a character it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.
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By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God
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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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Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.
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Fear is a huge thing for older people.
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I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
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We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.
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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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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
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Each person enters the world called, like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.
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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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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
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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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