The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingRandom House Publishing Group, 2013 M02 6 - 352 pages “[An] acute and powerful vision . . . offers a renaissance of humane values.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Plato called it “daimon,” the Romans “genius,” the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,” “spirit,” and “soul.” While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality, our modern culture refuses to accept that a unique soul guides each of us from birth, shaping the course of our lives. In this extraordinary bestseller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices—from the way we raise our children to our career paths to our social and personal commitments to achieving excellence in our time. Praise for The Soul’s Code “Champions a glorious sort of rugged individualism that, with the help of an inner daimon (or guardian angel), can triumph against all odds.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] brilliant, absorbing work . . . Hillman dares us to believe that we are each meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us.”—Publishers Weekly |
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... culture: to inspire ordinary lives by displaying their own potentialities. Extraordinary people excite; they guide; they warn; standing, as they do, in the corridors of imagination—statues of greatness, personifications of marvel and ...
... culture: to inspire ordinary lives by displaying their own potentialities. Extraordinary people excite; they guide; they warn; standing, as they do, in the corridors of imagination—statues of greatness, personifications of marvel and ...
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... culture is occupied by pop-star squatters, Trumped-up magnificoes, and Batman, civilization left with only tinsel celebrities to model its culture. So this book wants to set psychology back two hundred years, to the time when Romantic ...
... culture is occupied by pop-star squatters, Trumped-up magnificoes, and Batman, civilization left with only tinsel celebrities to model its culture. So this book wants to set psychology back two hundred years, to the time when Romantic ...
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... culture mean something “bad.” The word itself merely means a combination (sym) of accidental happenings, neither good nor bad, that coalesces this with that into an image. As judgment of their value need not be moral, so their province ...
... culture mean something “bad.” The word itself merely means a combination (sym) of accidental happenings, neither good nor bad, that coalesces this with that into an image. As judgment of their value need not be moral, so their province ...
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... culture, stale, crustless, but ever spongy with rebounding hope. Neglect of beauty neglects the Goddess, who then has to steal back into the departments as sexual harassment, into the laboratories as “research” experiments with sex and ...
... culture, stale, crustless, but ever spongy with rebounding hope. Neglect of beauty neglects the Goddess, who then has to steal back into the departments as sexual harassment, into the laboratories as “research” experiments with sex and ...
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Contents
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Neither Nature nor NurtureSomething Else | |
Penny Dreadfuls and Pure Fantasy | |
Disguise | |
Fate | |
The Bad Seed | |
Mediocrity | |
A Note on Methodology | |
Dedication | |
Bibliography | |
Other Books by This Author | |
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