Well said: “. . . but one cannot overemphasize the power of human anxiety to commit the most appalling gymnastics of mind to justify anything.” #JamesHollis, Living a Life Examined
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Sooner or later, we are called to face what we fear, respond to our summons to show up & overcome vast lethargic powers within. This is what is asked of us, to show up as the person we really are, as best we can manage, under circumstances over which we may have no control.
- #JamesHollis
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What we need to know is already known within. The basics: we are not here for long; we are accountable for the life we have lived or not lived; we are summoned to choice, courage and perseverance in living this life. #JamesHollis on Living an #ExaminedLife asks is this your life or someone else’s?
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It embodies what is right for us, no matter how trying that summons will prove to the comfort motives of the ego.”
- #JamesHollis, 'Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times.'
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Of all of hauntings, the greatest is the one we alone produce:
the unlived life.
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None of us will find the courage, or the will, or the capacity to completely fulfill the possibility invested in us by the gods. But we are also accountable for what we do not attempt.
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We are moved by forces deeper than sex, longer than love, more mysterious than the beloved.
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It embodies what is right for us, no matter how trying that summons will prove to the comfort motives of the ego.”
- #JamesHollis, 'Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times'
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We feel shamed by our panic attacks, degraded by our depression and furtive about our fears as if everyone else were not beset by same.
- #JamesHollis
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Evocation (or Head of Christ or Inspiration from a Mosaic in Ravenna), date unknown, by Odilon Redon.
To live the journey of the soul is to serve nature, serve others & serve that mystery of which we are the experiment. Then we will have incarnated the invisible, made luminous this short episode between two great mysteries.
- #JamesHollis, ‘Under #Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men’
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The suppression of doubt is typically the defense of a neurosis, a defense against the paradoxes of life from which we invariably grow. In fact, most of the time we do not wish to grow.
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Staying conscious is a difficult task, and none of us is up to it all the time. Being able to reflect upon oneself and take responsibility proves more difficult than we thought when we originally set off into life.
- #JamesHollis
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The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.
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As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves. We, too, must enjoy amazement at what unfolds from within us while our multiplicitous selves continue to incarnate in the world, contribute, and confound."
- #JamesHollis, 'What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life'
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#JAMESHOLLIS ON WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR
"We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being.
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- #JamesHollis, 'The Archetypal Imagination'
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The one thing parents can do for their children is live their lives as fully as they can, for this will grant permission to them to have their own journey.
- #JamesHollis
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It embodies what is right for us, no matter how trying that summons will prove to the comfort motives of the ego.”
- #JamesHollis, 'Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times'
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#JAMESHOLLIS ON OUR #DAIMON:
“Our daimon is our tutelary and constant companion. It has been there from childhood to the present, but it is usually drowned out by the noise of our environment, the fears that haunt us, the “stories” that separate us,
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a series of engagements with the cosmos in which we are asked to live as fully as we can manage. In so doing we serve the transcendent meaning that is meant to be brought into being through us.
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Screenshot of Speaking of Jung website www.speakingofjung.com showing James Hollis in Episode 138, uploaded March 3, 2025.
Check out the Speaking of Jung podcast if you haven't already!
James Hollis comments here that Laura London is his favourite interviewer.
It's more like a warm conversation.
#jungian
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Sooner or later, we are called to face what we fear, respond to our summons to show up & overcome vast lethargic powers within. This is what is asked of us, to show up as the person we really are, as best we can manage, under circumstances over which we may have no control.
- #JamesHollis
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Copy of a paperback edition of The Middle Passage by James Hollis held in a hand infront of a bookshelf
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
15/20 - The Middle Passage by #JamesHollis
#booksky #books
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One of the first questions #JamesHollis asks in The Middle Passage is, "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" The other side of the question, for which many of us must find an answer is, what remains when the personal history no longer serves us, and the roles fall apart?
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 18/20 🌀🌀🌀📚
#booksky #writerscommunity #bookskychallenge
#banbookburning #TheMiddlePassage #JamesHollis #theappointmentwithyourself
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The Shadow and How to Integrate It | James Hollis. Video (1 hr 5 min) ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=my1T...
#JamesHollis #Shadow #DepthPsychology
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