Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.
James HillmanHow can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.
James HillmanI'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
James HillmanIt's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
James Hillman