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
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.
happiness being-happy thinking
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
way humans
It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
soul forget ancestor
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
raises-questions oddities curiosity
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.
soul way problem
Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.
blessed blessing broken
You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.
psychology needs awakening
Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.
depression doors kind
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
blessing
....anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing....
doctors people want
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.
stars fall character
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
letting-go angel firsts
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
i-can
I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...