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 109
... fear ; what I fear , I hate ; what I hate , I want destroyed . So the rationalized mind prefers the chasm to the bridge ; it likes the cut that separates the realms . From inside its concrete de- bunker , all invisibles appear the same ...
... fear ; what I fear , I hate ; what I hate , I want destroyed . So the rationalized mind prefers the chasm to the bridge ; it likes the cut that separates the realms . From inside its concrete de- bunker , all invisibles appear the same ...
Page 189
... fear of being reduced to mediocrity . We need this same imagination , which seeks the small kernel , when we are ... fears of loss , fears of colonization , fears of slavery to a normalizing system that , by capturing my image in biogra ...
... fear of being reduced to mediocrity . We need this same imagination , which seeks the small kernel , when we are ... fears of loss , fears of colonization , fears of slavery to a normalizing system that , by capturing my image in biogra ...
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... fear of powerlessness as ordinariness , ignorance , impotence . About this last — the fear of powerlessness . We need to keep quite clear a distinction between inadequacy and impotence . The attribution of Hitler's psychopathy to his ...
... fear of powerlessness as ordinariness , ignorance , impotence . About this last — the fear of powerlessness . We need to keep quite clear a distinction between inadequacy and impotence . The attribution of Hitler's psychopathy to his ...
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