The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingRandom House, 1996 - 334 pages A journey into the essential mystery at the center of every life--the search for calling--The Soul's Code takes a new look at age-old themes, providing a radical, frequently amusing, and highly accessible path to realization through an extensive array of examples. Hillman ecnourages readers to discover the "blueprints" particular to their individual lives, certain that there is more to life than can be explained by genetics or environment. |
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Page 16
... fact suffer a groin wound , which he re- gards diffidently , refusing to be helped home to Mother , so as to return with the comrades with whom he came . Clearly heroism is constellated . A myth of the hero calls from within his acorn ...
... fact suffer a groin wound , which he re- gards diffidently , refusing to be helped home to Mother , so as to return with the comrades with whom he came . Clearly heroism is constellated . A myth of the hero calls from within his acorn ...
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... fact that the boy himself was only four . The daimon threw the fit , demanding the real thing , for playing the violin is not playing with a toy . The dai- mon does not want to be treated as a child ; it is not a child , and not an ...
... fact that the boy himself was only four . The daimon threw the fit , demanding the real thing , for playing the violin is not playing with a toy . The dai- mon does not want to be treated as a child ; it is not a child , and not an ...
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... fact of each's unique genius . Democracy rests , therefore , upon the founda- tions of an acorn . The acorn pushes beyond the edge ; its principal passion is realization . The calling demands untrammeled freedom of pursuit , a freedom ...
... fact of each's unique genius . Democracy rests , therefore , upon the founda- tions of an acorn . The acorn pushes beyond the edge ; its principal passion is realization . The calling demands untrammeled freedom of pursuit , a freedom ...
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