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Inner Life
“Watch carefully, the magic that occurs, when you give a person just enough comfort to be themselves.”
— Atticus
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“We are not by nature psychological. Psychology must be gained for it is not given, and without psychological education we do not understand ourselves and we make our daimons suffer. This suggests that a reason for psychotherapy of whatever school and for whatever complaint is to gain psychology — a logos of soul that is at the same moment a therapeia of soul. We need to gain the intelligent response that makes the soul intelligible, a craft and order that understands it, a knowledgeable deftness that cares for its wants in speech. And if logos is its therapy, because it articulates the psyche’s wants, then one answer to what the soul wants is psychology.”
— James Hillman, Healing Fictions
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Introverts aren’t in need of fixing. Being told by the vast numbers of extroverts in the world to Shape up, Get with it, Get over it… well, it’s just annoying. What if there were efforts to make extroverts learn to be more reflective, to observe more, to think before they blurt.
— Ann Medlock
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our…
