I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
James HillmanThe 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 HillmanRather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.
James Hillman