248 Quotes by James Hillman

Without time for loss you don’t have time for soul.

It’s a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood – the sense that motherhood isn’t itself a calling – also arises from economic pressure.

I don’t think anything changes until ideas change.

You don’t know what you’re going to get into when you follow your bliss.

Our dreams recover what the world forgets.

Fear, like love, can become a call into consciousness; one meets the unconscious, the unknown, the numinous and uncontrollable by keeping in touch with fear, which elevates the blind instinctual panic of the sheep into the knowing, cunning, fearful awe of the shepherd.

It’s better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child’s beauty and singling that child out. That’s how the mentor system works – you’re caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being.