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In the second half of life, the questions become: ‘Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?’ No small task  (James Hollis Quotes) A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature  (James Hollis Quotes) In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals  (James Hollis Quotes) The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be ‘solved,’ then no change will occur  (James Hollis Quotes) Fear of our own depths is the enemy  (James Hollis Quotes) The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites  (James Hollis Quotes) The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves  (James Hollis Quotes) The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young  (James Hollis Quotes) We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others  (James Hollis Quotes) Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one’s desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings  (James Hollis Quotes) To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time  (James Hollis Quotes) As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well  (James Hollis Quotes) Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:  (James Hollis Quotes) The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego  (James Hollis Quotes) We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others  (James Hollis Quotes)