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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
- James Hillman
#Economics
#Gender
#Race
#Result
#Social
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
#Society
#Trouble
#Wrong
Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
- James Hillman
#Remember
#Speak
#Stand Up
#Stand
#Women
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
- James Hillman
#Aggression
#Black
#Depression
#History
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
- James Hillman
#Courage
#Life
#Street
#Walk
#World
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
#Nobody
#War
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
- James Hillman
#Ancestors
#Forget
#Own
#Soul
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
- James Hillman
#Embrace
#Learning
#Need
#Student
#System
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
- James Hillman
#Children
#Death
#Marriage
#Parents
#Sex
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
#Me
#Obsession
#Sometimes
#Work
#World
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
- James Hillman
#Hard
#Know
#Very
#Wisdom
Fear is a huge thing for older people.
- James Hillman
#Fear
#Huge
#Older
#People
#Thing
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
- James Hillman
#Being
#Happened
#Hurt
#Now
#Thought
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
- James Hillman
#Anything
#Change
#Fresh
#Ideas
#See
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
#Important
#Me
#Others
#People
#Yourself
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
- James Hillman
#Call
#I Am
#Path
#Something
#Us
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.
- James Hillman
#Happiness
#Happy
#Realize
#Right
#Stop
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
- James Hillman
#Beauty
#Depression
#Door
#Kind
#Some
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
#Car
#Doctor
#People
#Poor
#Way
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
- James Hillman
#Angel
#First
#Impossible
#Notion
#See
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