#jameshollis

[thecpdiary]

"We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose to become.” JAMES HOLLIS "I am drawn to James Hollis's words: 'We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose to become.' In many ways, that sentiment sits at the heart of The CP Diary – we cannot always choose our past, but it doesn't have to be the final word."

For more relatable, inspirational and lifestyle quotes and blogs, please check out my site https://www.thecpdiary.com

[theintrovertsgarden]

”We can no longer ask permission to believe what we believe, desire what we desire. We have to seize authority.” ”It’s an act born of insight, occasionally courage, sometimes desperation.” James Hollis, PhD- Living between Worlds #jameshollis #jungianpsychology #carljung #purpose #courage #courageouspathways https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgmLR3BkT9/?igshid=xjlpe77ugyp7

[attalal]

#jameshollis https://www.instagram.com/p/B6SO75DgfgEjK9H1fSxo3oo01vf52IAMqD7ueE0/?igshid=1sx9xoofdnf1

[theunderliner]

What we wish most to know, most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp. ... "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that would melt the stars." [Flaubert] ... With metaphor and symbol, we are provisionally able to approximate, to apprehend, to appreciate that which lies beyond our powers to understand or to control. ... While our condition remains fragile and sometimes terrible, we are nonetheless afforded a means by which to participate in the deepest mysteries of which we are a part and with which we long to connect. ... The mythic ground has shifted from intimate relationship with nature, from stable social fabric, and from certainty of belief. Hirsch's metaphors, like T. S. Eliot's "this is the broken jaw of our lost kingdoms," communicate through their very "dis-location." In this existential chasm depth psychology necessarily finds its work, for spiritual dislocation is the chief wound which lies beneath the other wounds we treat with work, drugs, ideologies, or desperate love. ... Pascal wrote in his Pensees that the secret task of civilization was to offer divertissement or "distraction," lest we grow terrified of being wholly present to ourselves. ... Painting seeks to capture an essence which extends beyond the transient to the essential.

James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination

(more)

[lakanen]

The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

James Hollis