The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingA 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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Despite psychology ' s reluctance to let individual fate into its field , psychology
does admit that we each have our own makeup , that each of us is definitely ,
even defiantly , a unique individual . But when it comes to accounting for the
spark of ...
Despite psychology ' s reluctance to let individual fate into its field , psychology
does admit that we each have our own makeup , that each of us is definitely ,
even defiantly , a unique individual . But when it comes to accounting for the
spark of ...
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16 Do notice the word I emphasized : individual . Differences — not of gender ,
not of color , not of race , not of class , not of any group , but between individuals .
So I want to fault the comparison of IQ scores of so - called blacks and whites in
at ...
16 Do notice the word I emphasized : individual . Differences — not of gender ,
not of color , not of race , not of class , not of any group , but between individuals .
So I want to fault the comparison of IQ scores of so - called blacks and whites in
at ...
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As democratic equality can find no other logical ground but the uniqueness of
each individual ' s calling , so freedom is founded upon the full independence of
calling . When the writers of the Declaration of Independence stated that all are ...
As democratic equality can find no other logical ground but the uniqueness of
each individual ' s calling , so freedom is founded upon the full independence of
calling . When the writers of the Declaration of Independence stated that all are ...
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| Title | The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling |
| Author | James Hillman |
| Publisher | Random House, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0679445226, 9780679445227 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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