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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

#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

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 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

#away #called #deficiencies #had #i

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'm cautious about a lot of words. ↗

— James Hillman

#cautious #i #lot #words

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation. ↗

— James Hillman

#generation #important #look #men #next

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#director #farm #france #i #i am

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #choice #circumstances #curse #forgotten