A well-known psychologist and philosopher, James Hillman, wrote:

“The great task of a life-sustaining culture is to keep the invisibles attached… And then we must look back over our lives at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before…There is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things. This is destiny. Symptoms are part of our calling — they force us to go deeper.”

The term “invisibles” intrigues me. I …