James Hillman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.”

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

“I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.”

“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.”

“Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.”

“We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.”

“In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.”

“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.”

“I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.”

“We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.”