248 Quotes by James Hillman

....anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing....

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child’s destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what’s broken, but to get what’s broken blessed.

Yes, we worship the idea of the “self-made man” – otherwise we’d go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

We vote for Perot. We think he’s a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It’s unbelievable, yet it’s part of that worship of individuality.

It’s very hard to know what wisdom is.

Yes, there’s genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there’s biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn’t do anything-or that it doesn’t do enough.

By seeing differently, we do differently.