James Hillman Quotes

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

My personality doesn't interest me.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

You know, most people really don't know me.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Be as you wish to seem.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.