I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
James HillmanIf you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
James HillmanIn the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.
James HillmanYou 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.
James HillmanThe moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
James HillmanThe self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.
James Hillman