James

“All of life is attachment and loss, an unavoidable, rhythmic exchange.”
― James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

“Only a spirituality that confesses that it knows not has a shot at growing, evolving, engaging the perils and uncertainties of the journey and of staying by our side when things get rough.”
― James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

“There was a rush of expectation with the vast transformation of our society by social media and by the internet itself. To be sure, we have greater access to each other now, we can find each other more easily, but we can also annoy each other more incessantly, intrude more abruptly, and use and abuse each other more profoundly by bombarding folks with unwanted commercial, religious, political, sentimentalized, and trivial chaff. (Wherever the human imprint advances, the Shadow follows apace.) For all the connectivity the modern electronic world offers, and I do appreciate that gift, I also perceive that we are more atomized, more disconnected from each other than ever before.”
― James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

“Depth psychology understands that the goal of life is not happiness, which is only transiently possible anyhow, but meaning, which abides.”
― James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times