James Hollis Quotes

• Convertirse en una persona no significa necesariamente estar bien ajustado, bien adaptado, contar con la aprobación de los demás. Significa convertirse en lo que uno es. Estamos destinados a ser más excéntricos, más peculiares, más raros. No estamos hechos sólo para encajar. Estamos aquí para ser diferentes. Estamos aquí para ser el individuo.

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  Being Yourself, Mean, Differences

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• The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

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  Intimate Relationships, Intimate, Our Relationship

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.47, Inner City Books

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• In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?' No small task.

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  Loss, Play, Soul

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• We are not here to fit in...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...we are here to become more and more ourselves.

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  Self, Different, Mosaics

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• El acto de conciencia es central; de lo contrario, nos invaden los complejos.
  El héroe que hay en cada uno de nosotros debe responder a la llamada de la individuación.
  Debemos apartarnos de la cacofonía del mundo exterior para escuchar la voz interior.
  Cuando nos atrevemos a vivir sus impulsos, alcanzamos la individualidad.
  Puede que nos convirtamos en extraños para quienes creían conocernos, pero al menos ya no somos extraños para nosotros mismos.

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  Hero, Voice, Knowing

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.116, Inner City Books

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• What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

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  World, Faces, Refuse

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• We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

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  World, Share, Feds

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.35, Penguin

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• El propósito de la terapia no es eliminar el sufrimiento, sino avanzar a través de él hacia una conciencia ampliada que pueda sostener la polaridad de los opuestos dolorosos.

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  Inspirational, Moving, Opposites

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• Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

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  Strange, Surprise, Ambiguity

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.156, Penguin

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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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  Simple, World, Able

  James Hollis (2005). “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up”, p.72, Penguin

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• We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

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  Loss, Creating, Suffering

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• The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.

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  Responsibility, Forever, Growth

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.7, Inner City Books

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• We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

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  Intimate Relationships, Needs, Becoming

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.99, Inner City Books

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• How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their lives, resist the summons to show up, or live fugitive lives, jealous, projecting onto others, and then wonder why nothing ever really feels quite right. How many proffer compliance with the other, buying peace at the price of soul, and wind up with neither?

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  Jealous, Insecure, Wind

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• To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

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  Healing, Wade, World

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• One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.

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  Jobs, Powerful, Book

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.41, Inner City Books

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• In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

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  Animal, Tiny, Ends

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• Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

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  Fear, Enemy, Depth

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• A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

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  Neurosis, True Nature

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• La duda es una motivación espiritual profunda y eficaz. Sin duda, no se trasciende ningún tópico, no se encuentra ningún conocimiento nuevo, no es posible la expansión de la imaginación. La duda es inquietante para el ego y quienes se sienten atraídos por ideologías que prometen disipar la duda prefiriendo certezas nunca crecen.

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  Spiritual, Motivation, Imagination

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• Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

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  Black And White, Journey, Today

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• The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

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  Daddy, Doe, Middle

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• In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.

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  Spiritual, Lying, Fall

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.101, Penguin

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• Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.

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  Destiny, Understanding, Desire

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• As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

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  Children, Sea, Sound

  James Hollis, David H. Rosen (2002). “The Archetypal Imagination”, p.119, Texas A&M University Press

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