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1. "Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable." ~ James Hillman
2. "Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here." ~ James Hillman
3. "We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?" ~ James Hillman
4. "If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now." ~ James Hillman
5. "I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result." ~ James Hillman
6. "Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind." ~ James Hillman
7. "I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics." ~ James Hillman
8. "Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am." ~ James Hillman
9. "All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?" ~ James Hillman
10. "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 Hillman
11. "Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society." ~ James Hillman
12. "The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one." ~ James Hillman
13. "We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive." ~ James Hillman
14. "As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity." ~ James Hillman
15. "The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite." ~ James Hillman
16. "The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing." ~ James Hillman
17. "To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair." ~ James Hillman
18. "Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars." ~ James Hillman
19. "Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem" ~ James Hillman
20. "I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche..." ~ James Hillman
21. "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 Hillman
22. "My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism)." ~ James Hillman
23. "Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining." ~ James Hillman
24. "Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least." ~ James Hillman
25. "Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods." ~ James Hillman
26. "Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial… the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a style of anima fascinations in which the absence of significance is the significance." ~ James Hillman
27. "...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived." ~ James Hillman

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Sometimes, my darling Caroline, when I can't take the want any longer; I go and look at you. Did you know that? I stand by your bedside and watch you sleeping by moonlight, your angelic face draped in shadows, so lovely, so peaceful, and I wonder if you're dreaming about me."
Author: Adele Ashworth

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