James Hillman Way Quotations

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.