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Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.
James Hillman
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James Hillman
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 12
Died: 2011
Died: October 27
Non-Fiction Writer
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Psychologist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
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I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
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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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The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.
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We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.
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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
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Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.
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Fear is a huge thing for older people.
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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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I don't think anything changes until ideas change.
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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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You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.
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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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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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We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.
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Teachers today can't take to a child.
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We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
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It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
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