soul
The concept of this individualized soul-image has a long, complicated history; its appearance in cultures is diverse and widespread and the names for it are legion. Only our contemporary psychology and psychiatry omit it from their textbooks. The study and therapy of the psyche in our society ignore this factor, which other cultures regard as the k
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
According to this theology, we are not only born with God at our center, but we are also born with a heart full of desire for God. This yearning is our fundamental motive force; it is the human spirit. It is the energy behind everything we seek and aspire to. And if indeed we are in intimate union with God in the center, then the soul’s desire is G
... See moreGerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
You are born with a character; it is given; a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
To uncover the innate image we must set aside the psychological frames that are usually used, and mostly used up. They do not reveal enough. They trim a life to fit the frame: developmental growth, step by step, from infancy, through troubled youth, to midlife crisis and aging, to death. Plodding your way through an already planned map, you are on
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
Zukav helped usher quantum physics into the mainstream spiritual lexicon. He offered a warm, lucid translation of one of science’s most confounding frontiers and showed that these new scientific mysteries might actually dovetail with ancient mystical intuitions. But more than that, he invited people to take their inner life seriously—to understand ... See more
The Mathematics of the Soul: Continuing the Dance with Gary Zukav
What you do in your life affects your heart, alters your soul, and concerns the daimon. We make soul with our behavior, for soul doesn’t come already made in heaven. It is only imaged there, an unfulfilled project trying to grow down.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
Jung, especially, developed a psychotherapy that was oriented toward soul. Unlike Freud, who viewed the unconscious as a boiling cauldron of evil impulses, Jung uncovered our lost creative impulses lying there, as well as the lost gods or mythological images that he called archetypes.
Steven Wolf • Romancing the Shadow
Organic images of growth follow the favorite symbol for human life, the tree, but I am turning that tree upside down. My model of growth has its roots in heaven and imagines a gradual descent downward toward human affairs. This is the Tree of the Kabbalah in the Jewish and also Christian mystical tradition.