American - Psychologist | April 12, 1926 - October 27, 2011
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.
James Hillman
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I'm cautious about a lot of words.
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It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
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Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
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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.
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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
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The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
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We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
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We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
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We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
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