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Each person enters the world called, like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

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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
World
Fulfill
Agenda
Tree
Called
Persons
Soul
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I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made
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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 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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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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Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
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I'm cautious about a lot of words
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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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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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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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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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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.
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The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love
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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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I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
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You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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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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