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  • Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations
  • Written by: James Hollis PhD
  • Narrated by: James Hollis PhD
  • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (52 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

A masterful author and Jungian analyst examines the qualities that bring meaning to our human journey

What is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, prestige, or even enrollment in someone else’s idea of a worthy cause - yet where do we turn when these myths fail to fulfill our need for purpose? “When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted”, teaches Dr. James Hollis, “our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice”.

Investigate the mystery of your existence through the portal of depth psychology

A Life of Meaning is a profound audio exploration of the nature of meaning and how we can orient toward it or away from it with the choices we make. Through examination of myth, literature, historical figures, and the wisdom of depth psychology, Hollis provides penetrating insight into the search for purpose. Here you’ll explore:

  • How our story-seeking mind forms our sense of meaning from early experience
  • Why these early stories inevitably fail as we are called to our own path
  • Skillfully accessing the inner oracle of your dreams
  • Shadow work - where we fear to tread, yet where our greatest treasures may be found
  • Missing the mark - examining the archetype of the Seven Deadly Sins through a psychological lens
  • Dispelling the “ghosts” that haunt our memories and possess our psyche
  • Finding personal resilience in times of internal and external change
  • Living more fully in the presence of our mortality
  • Guidance for coming into alignment with your soul’s abiding quest for meaning at any stage of your life

Nobody else can provide you with a sense of meaning. Anyone who tries is attempting to enroll you in their own version. In A Life of Meaning, James Hollis offers no easy answers or feel-good certainties - instead, he shares his most valuable questions and reflections to help you find the courage, persistence, and inspiration to navigate your own odyssey. “It’s humbling work, this process of getting our lives back”, he teaches. “Yet I submit to you that's worth the price of the ticket, for in the journey our lives become ever more luminous”.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 James Hollis, PhD (P)2020 Sounds True

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insightful and easy to follow

loved the narrator. loved the content. enjoyable. one that can be read over and over with benefits each time.

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Life changing.

This book has the potential to change lives ...
I am deeply grateful to have come across it

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Life changing and entertaining!

This book presents life changing wisdom with deep insights, engaging stories, compassion and humour. I would recommend it to just about anyone, but it would be particularly helpful to those in midlife or older, or those undergoing a “dark night of the soul” or meaning crisis.
It is well written, well narrated, and the author brings resources from not just psychology but history, literature, poetry, mythology, and spirituality to inform his thesis.
It was insightful, informative, helpful, and entertaining as well.

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A wonderful journey with James Hollis

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to James Hollis and his amazing calming, soothing and insightful words. I can’t wait listen to more of his books!

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An excellent book on Our journey of life.

I found this book an excellent book on answering my many questions of my life.
It gives peace of mind as to why I look to my past some of which I so want to forget and the importance of getting on with what really matters no matter how old you are . But I hope for the young just setting out on their journey will listen to this book.

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Deep and insightful, inspiring

Beautiful, and so connected to the reality of my existence.
I will have to listen to it again.
Highly recommend.

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A deep dive

This book was well written and well read. It’s a deep dive into the psyche in search of meaning.
The last two chapters really resonated and gave me good insights into aging.
I really enjoyed this book.

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hard to listen to

hard to listen to the narrative. I'm sure sure I like it, I'm only in part way but so far I wanna send back

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