The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingA journey into the essential mystery at the center of every life--the search for calling--The Soul's Code takes a new look at age-old themes, providing a radical, frequently amusing, and highly accessible path to realization through an extensive array of examples. Hillman ecnourages readers to discover the "blueprints" particular to their individual lives, certain that there is more to life than can be explained by genetics or environment. |
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... child does not enter the world for its own reasons , with its own project and guided by its own genius . The acorn theory provides a psychology of childhood . It affirms the child's inherent uniqueness and destiny , which means first of ...
... child does not enter the world for its own reasons , with its own project and guided by its own genius . The acorn theory provides a psychology of childhood . It affirms the child's inherent uniqueness and destiny , which means first of ...
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... child's soul . Yes , I am saying that " care of soul , " as Thomas Moore has written , may thereby help the child's soul prosper . Should the onus of soul - making in the parent shift to making the soul of the child , then the parent is ...
... child's soul . Yes , I am saying that " care of soul , " as Thomas Moore has written , may thereby help the child's soul prosper . Should the onus of soul - making in the parent shift to making the soul of the child , then the parent is ...
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... child's job . To pick the little worker up and carry it off , to call the child away to get dressed or clear up before the task is over , breaks right into the middle of its work . Can your obedience to the fantasy of the clock and its ...
... child's job . To pick the little worker up and carry it off , to call the child away to get dressed or clear up before the task is over , breaks right into the middle of its work . Can your obedience to the fantasy of the clock and its ...
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