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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... realize that accidents , including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to , belong to the pattern of the image , are necessary to it , and help fulfill it . A calling may be postponed , avoided , intermittently missed ...
... realize that accidents , including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to , belong to the pattern of the image , are necessary to it , and help fulfill it . A calling may be postponed , avoided , intermittently missed ...
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... realize to what feverish extent all psychologies promote anxiety - in parents , in children , in therapists , in researchers , and in the field itself as it extends its searchings into ever more " problem areas . Everything seems to ...
... realize to what feverish extent all psychologies promote anxiety - in parents , in children , in therapists , in researchers , and in the field itself as it extends its searchings into ever more " problem areas . Everything seems to ...
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... realize how immovable patriarchal attitudes are ; Marxists might un- derstand why it is so hard to awaken the peasants and prole- tariat to revolution ; and the Church might take comfort : there will always be a genetic pool ready to ...
... realize how immovable patriarchal attitudes are ; Marxists might un- derstand why it is so hard to awaken the peasants and prole- tariat to revolution ; and the Church might take comfort : there will always be a genetic pool ready to ...
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