James Hillman
James Hillman
James Hillmanwas an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
CountryUnited States of America
letting-go people important
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.
bliss follow-your-bliss knows
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
soul purpose connections
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
soul psychology stories
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
kids opposites ideas
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
despair demand expect-nothing
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
dark mirrors important
...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.
struggle character fate
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth.
soul rewards watches
The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.
just-being realizing minutes
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.
hero character self
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.
father mirrors childhood
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
dream wander who-you-are
Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
dream morning two
Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.