“To change how we see things takes falling in love. The same becomes altogether different. Like love, a shift of sight can be redemptive – not in the religious sense of saving the soul for heaven, but in a more pragmatic sense. As at a redemptive center, you get something back for what you had misperceived as merely worthless. The noisome symptoms of every day can be revalued and their usefulness reclaimed…. A restructuring of perception is what I am after in this book. I want us to see the child we were, the adult we are, and the children who require us in one way or another, in a light that shifts the valences from curse to blessing, or if not blessing at least symptom of calling.”
James Hillman (1996), The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, pp. 34-35.
