Anita Ashland

“Whatever the expertise we have acquired, the greatest gift we bring to anyone who is suffering is our wholeness.” -Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

“Individuation may be simply trying to show up as ourselves more days than not.” -James Hollis

“This is the secret of alchemy. Liberation requires a journey to the interior.” -Murray Stein

“It is not what is said about the dream after the dream, but the experience of the dream after the dream…the dream is effective as long as it remains alive.” -James Hillman

“The characters in myths portray the characteristics of human nature, and psychology is mythology in contemporary dress.” A Terrible Love of War – James Hillman

“the best treatment plan for loneliness is solitude.” -James Hollis

“Coping with the dysfunctional suggests that you become more and more dysfunctional as you become more and more adjusted.” James Hillman

“Keep asking the large questions. Large questions give you a larger life. Large questions restore to you the sovereignty of your soul.” -James Hollis

Thank you!

“When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands—all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“What is it, at this moment and in this individual, that represents the natural urge of life? That is the question."

- Jung, C.G., "The Structure of the Unconscious." CW 7, par. 488

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” -Tara Brach

“Entering one’s interior story takes a courage similar to starting a novel. We have to engage with persons whose autonomy may radically alter, even dominate, our thoughts and feelings, neither ordering these persons about nor yielding to them full sway.” James Hillman, Healing Fiction

“Projection is OK until we really believe the truth of our projections.” -Ken James

"For what could be more abundant than dreams, and what more fascinating?" -Synesius of Cyrene

“To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive, but expresses something as best it can.” C.G. Jung

“We have such dreams just in order to meet the thing in ourselves which is strangest to us.” -C.G. Jung

“To be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.” -David Whyte, Consolations

“I work all around the dream picture and disregard every attempt that the dreamer makes to break away from it. Time and time again, in my professional work, I have had to repeat the words: ‘Let’s get back to your dream. What does the dream say?’” -C.G. Jung

"Ask yourself of every dilemma, every choice, every relationship, every commitment, or every failure to commit, 'Does this choice diminish me, or enlarge me?'"

This decision-making framework from James Hollis is one I return to again and again.

James Hollis recommends writing the above quote down and look at it every day: “it’ll change your life because you’ll start recognizing how many behaviors are fear based and what the alternative may be. What you get from that is a larger life.”

“The spirit of evil is the negation of the life force by fear. Only boldness can deliver us from fear. If the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is violated.” -C.G. Jung

“Every case history is a “fiction.” We are not seeing the person; we are seeing a window, an aperture, an angle of sight toward the person.” -James Hollis

“You can come out of a book thinking about your life completely differently, which is just the most powerful thing we can do. The right book at the right time can transform the way you understand the world.” -Cal Newport on 3 Books podcast