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James Hillman Quotes: Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.
         

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.


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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.



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Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.



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To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.



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Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.



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Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.



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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.





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