We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
James HillmanOur life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
James HillmanMy goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
James HillmanEach of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?
James HillmanI have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.
James Hillman