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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Page 54
Its source , however , seems to be the solitary uniqueness of each daimon , an
archetypal loneliness inexpressible in a child ' s vocabulary and formulated
hardly better in ours . Moments of dejection drop us into a pool of loneliness .
Waves of ...
Its source , however , seems to be the solitary uniqueness of each daimon , an
archetypal loneliness inexpressible in a child ' s vocabulary and formulated
hardly better in ours . Moments of dejection drop us into a pool of loneliness .
Waves of ...
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It ' s time to look at what hard - hat psychology says about falling in love , since
that is when fate seems most clearly to be calling and an individual destiny
decided . First we will need to examine how psychology conceives individuality
as such ...
It ' s time to look at what hard - hat psychology says about falling in love , since
that is when fate seems most clearly to be calling and an individual destiny
decided . First we will need to examine how psychology conceives individuality
as such ...
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It seems precisely the right image for the theory we are examining . The acorn
theory of biography seems to have sprung from and to speak the language of the
puer eternus , the archetype of the eternal youth who embodies a timeless ...
It seems precisely the right image for the theory we are examining . The acorn
theory of biography seems to have sprung from and to speak the language of the
puer eternus , the archetype of the eternal youth who embodies a timeless ...
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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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