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 38
... kind of know- ing , self - examination not the only kind of awareness . Appre- ciation of an image , your life story as studded with images since early childhood , and a deepening into them slows the restlessness of inquiry , laying to ...
... kind of know- ing , self - examination not the only kind of awareness . Appre- ciation of an image , your life story as studded with images since early childhood , and a deepening into them slows the restlessness of inquiry , laying to ...
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... kind of radical opposition to the conventional mother appears in the biographies of the composer Igor Stravinsky , for instance , and the photographer Diane Arbus . Stravinsky's mother chided her son for not " recognizing his betters ...
... kind of radical opposition to the conventional mother appears in the biographies of the composer Igor Stravinsky , for instance , and the photographer Diane Arbus . Stravinsky's mother chided her son for not " recognizing his betters ...
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... kind of vision , at least in regard to Lyndon Johnson : In attempting to explain to me the basis for the Presi- dent's rapport with the young congressman - a rapport almost unique in Roosevelt's life - one of Roosevelt's ad- visers ...
... kind of vision , at least in regard to Lyndon Johnson : In attempting to explain to me the basis for the Presi- dent's rapport with the young congressman - a rapport almost unique in Roosevelt's life - one of Roosevelt's ad- visers ...
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