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The Beautiful Structure
Romantic love is a wakening of the soul that can lead you astray or give beautiful structure to your life.
— Thomas Moore
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Looking back, I feel like Soul was at the base of all my work, from Emotion to Betrayal and the fairy tale of Psychhe/Eros as myth of analysis, to “making soul” and, recently, to attention to aesthetic imagination and soul of the world (world soul).
Even certain specialist chapters on salt, silver and blue color in alchemy are an elaboration on the phenomenon of Soul.
If therefore Anima is my radical metaphor, it seems psychologically necessary to dig into this component that dominates my thinking, colors my style and has so well offered to my attention many topics. Also, isn’t the vocation of psychology a “devotion” to Anima?
— James Hillman
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Life will eventually bring you to your knees.
Either you’ll be on your knees,
cursing the universe and begging for a different life,
or you’ll be brought to your knees by gratitude and awe,
deeply embracing the life that you have,
too overwhelmed by the beauty of it all to stand or even speak.
Either way, they’re the same knees.
