Sam Keen Quotes

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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• There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

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  Men, Order, Two

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.12, Bantam

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• To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

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  Cute, Sweet Love, Home

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego-your need to posses and control-and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous-lar ge souled.

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  Spiritual, Gratitude, Ego

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• The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

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  Best Practices, Advice, Railroads

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• Trust what moves you most deeply.

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  Moving

  Sam Keen (1977). “Beginnings Without End”, Harpercollins

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• The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.

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  Spiritual, Children, Journey

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• The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

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  Self Esteem, Animal, Men

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• The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Soul

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

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  Dark, Night, Personal Transformation

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• The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

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  Gratitude, Despair, Resentment

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.

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  Teacher, Blessing, Expectations

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• The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

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  Moving, Sacred

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• The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

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  Strong, Men, Two

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• Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Mind

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• The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

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  Love, Healing, Becoming

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.

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  Answers, Illusion, Loses

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

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  Thinking, Shapes, Favourite

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• We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

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  Feels

  Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

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• The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

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  Stories, Revolutionary

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• I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

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  Voice, Events, Each Day

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.

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  Communication, Compassion, Our World

  Sam Keen (1994). “Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit in Everyday Life”, Bantam

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• The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

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  Sleep, Unique, Men

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• The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

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  Spiritual, Gratitude, Produce

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

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  Love Is, Compassion, Foundation

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