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You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

~James Hillman

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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

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We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

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Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

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The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

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All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

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We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: Unknown

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