James Hillman Quotes

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

The only journey is the one within.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

I've never been a confessional writer.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.