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James Hillman

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We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.


— James Hillman


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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.


— James Hillman


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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.


— James Hillman


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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.


— James Hillman


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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.


— James Hillman


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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.


— James Hillman


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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.


— James Hillman


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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.


— James Hillman


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We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?


— James Hillman


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I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.


— James Hillman


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About James Hillman






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Hillman also rejects causality as a defining framework and suggests in its place a shifting form of fate whereby events are not inevitable but bound to be expressed in some way dependent on the character of the soul of the individual. Hillman does not believe that dreams are simply random residue or flotsam from waking life (as advanced by physiologists) but neither does he believe that dreams are compensatory for the struggles of waking life or are invested with “secret” meanings of how one should live as did Jung. He died at his home in Thompson Connecticut in 2011 from bone cancer.

Jung Institute in Zurich founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice writing and traveling to lecture until his death at his home in Connecticut on October 27 2011. He studied at and then guided studies for the C.

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