Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
James HillmanOur life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
James HillmanSuppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.
James HillmanCalling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.
James HillmanI think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "troublemakers" early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers.
James Hillman