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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
Philosopher
Psychologist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
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Words
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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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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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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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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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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
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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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Each person enters the world called, like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.
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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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I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
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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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We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
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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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I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.
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The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.
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Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
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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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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means portion. Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.
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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
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