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 102
... failures are common ; is this because the child fails school or because school fails the child ? Either way , the gap widens between the innate intuitive ability of the child and the formalized tuition of school . As the writer William ...
... failures are common ; is this because the child fails school or because school fails the child ? Either way , the gap widens between the innate intuitive ability of the child and the formalized tuition of school . As the writer William ...
Page 104
... failed exams . Gertrude Stein would not take her final in a class at Harvard . Anton Chekhov refused to study classics , and failed his school exam twice . These failures at school gave him nightmares . " All his life he was to be ...
... failed exams . Gertrude Stein would not take her final in a class at Harvard . Anton Chekhov refused to study classics , and failed his school exam twice . These failures at school gave him nightmares . " All his life he was to be ...
Page 224
... failed ; Hitler was saved as if by the chance intervention of a faulty firing pin and a thick table leg . Once , when he was seventeen , fortune did fail him . He had taken a lottery ticket and had grandiose plans for what he would do ...
... failed ; Hitler was saved as if by the chance intervention of a faulty firing pin and a thick table leg . Once , when he was seventeen , fortune did fail him . He had taken a lottery ticket and had grandiose plans for what he would do ...
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