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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... given all at once . So , too , the image in the acorn . You are born with a character ; it is given ; a gift , as the old stories say , from the guardians upon your birth . This book sets out on a new course based on an old idea . Each ...
... given all at once . So , too , the image in the acorn . You are born with a character ; it is given ; a gift , as the old stories say , from the guardians upon your birth . This book sets out on a new course based on an old idea . Each ...
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... given significance by the soul . The great fashion designer Coco Chanel , who in 1924 in- vented the basic " little black dress , " passed all of her teen years in a rigid monastic orphanage . It was an imprisonment , and every trace of ...
... given significance by the soul . The great fashion designer Coco Chanel , who in 1924 in- vented the basic " little black dress , " passed all of her teen years in a rigid monastic orphanage . It was an imprisonment , and every trace of ...
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... given with the acorn , so is the psychopathic potential for demonic crime . The crimes are not choices as much as necessities , though they may be diverted , inhibited , thwarted , sublimated , as psychia- try and criminology hopefully ...
... given with the acorn , so is the psychopathic potential for demonic crime . The crimes are not choices as much as necessities , though they may be diverted , inhibited , thwarted , sublimated , as psychia- try and criminology hopefully ...
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