Eight Ingenious Quotes By James Hollis

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• James Hollis, Ph. D., was born in Springfield, Illinois. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Manchester College in 1962 and his Ph. D. from Drew University in 1967. James taught humanities for 26 years at various colleges and universities before refresher training as a Jung analyst at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland (1977-1982). James Hollis is an Accredited Jung Analyst in Private Practice in Houston, Texas, where he served as Executive Director of the Jung Education Center in Houston from 1997 to 2008.
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• We face a difficult choice: anxiety or depression. Having heeded the call of the soul and taking a step forward, we can experience very strong and acute anxiety. If we refuse to take this step and suppress our emotional urge, we will experience depression. In such a difficult case, one should choose anxiety, for such a choice is at least the path leading to personal development; depression is a dead end and failure in life.

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• Trying to avoid my path in life, shifting it to another, surrendering to the fear of loneliness, I not only destroy the unique meaning of my life, which I definitely wanted to comprehend, but also burden the person to whom I confessed my love.

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• The development of a mature personality directly depends on the extent to which a person can take responsibility for his choice, stop blaming others or expect deliverance from them, and also recognize the pain associated with his loneliness, regardless of his contribution to the formation of social roles and strengthening social relations.

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• The goal of the personality is not narcissistic self-absorption, as some people believe; it consists in the manifestation of more grandiose goals of nature through the embodiment of personality.

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• The goal of life is not happiness, but meaning.

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• A person who feels loneliness experiences a unique experience of wandering and at the same time realizes his own inner essence with which he can enter into a dialogue. Through this dialogue, the individuation process begins. How tragic then it becomes to give up this opportunity for personal growth! A person can become a person by constantly engaging in such a dialogue, constantly realizing and exploring the autonomy and teleology of his soul.
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• These terrible crows - depression, despair and a sense of uselessness - will always be somewhere nearby, right outside our window. No matter how consciously we want to get rid of them, they will come back to us again and again, and their hoarse croaks will interrupt our sleepy denial. Think of them as a constant reminder of the challenge ahead. Even hearing their croaking, the sound of their wings, we still retain our freedom of choice.
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• The task of individuation is precisely to achieve integrity, not kindness, not purity, and not happiness.

Illustrations: artist Christian Schloe