Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible. James Hillman More Quotes by James Hillman More Quotes From James Hillman I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose. James Hillman tradition purpose thinking 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. James Hillman destiny feelings children You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. James Hillman vietnam faults war One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy. James Hillman bleeding suffering want The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along. James Hillman medicine self thinking As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now. James Hillman psychology people thinking I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow. James Hillman two people thinking Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. James Hillman trouble life-is People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology. James Hillman doctors ideas thinking The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world. James Hillman worry culture world Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche. James Hillman humorous animal mean Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. James Hillman leisure economics slave 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. James Hillman self men ideas Teachers today can't take to a child. James Hillman teacher today children The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? James Hillman talking people negative The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism. James Hillman fate mean book It's very hard to know what wisdom is James Hillman hard knows Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough. James Hillman dysfunction calling may A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject. James Hillman mother dream country I don't think anything changes until ideas change. James Hillman things-change ideas thinking
