#th

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

#body #circumstances #elected #myth #necessity

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

#lose #losing #loss #means #soul

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

#discouraged #having #inside #just #kid

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. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #blame #fault #fought #grunts

Fear is a huge thing for older people. ↗

— James Hillman

#huge #huge thing #older #older people #people

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill. ↗

— James Hillman

#calls #drop #fulfill #i #i wonder

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. ↗

— James Hillman

#fathers #few #founding #founding fathers #happiness

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. ↗

— James Hillman

#economics #god #i #i think #miserable

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #changed #changing #defeat #doing

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough. ↗

— James Hillman

#been #childhoods #enough #many #memories