The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire

We need to recall the angel aspect of the word, recognizing words as independent carriers of soul between people.

The soul seems to suffer when its inward eye is occluded, a victim of overwhelming events.

we might regard ego from soul's perspective where ego becomes an instrument for day-to-day coping, nothing more grandiose than a trusty janitor of the planetary houses, a servant of soul-making.

A particular image, Hillman notes, is a necessary angel waiting for a response. How we greet this angel will depend on our sensitivity to its reality and presence

But only continued attempts at accurate soul-speech can cure our speech of its chatter and restore it to its first function, the communication of soul.

The soul has been imaged as the inner man, and as the inner sister or spouse, the place or voice of God within, as a

The soul, he says, turns events into experience. But it is image that is experienced, not literalism.

the psyche is the subject of our perceptions, the perceiver through fantasy, rather than the object of our perceptions.

To get rid of the symptom means to get rid of the chance to gain what may one day be of greatest value, even if at first an unbearable irritant, lowly, and disguised.