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18 Sam Keen Quotes That You Will Love With Your Heart And Soul
Sam Keen is a prominent American philosopher, author and professor renowned for exploring queries regarding religion, life, wonder, and love. He served as a contributing editor at ‘Psychology Today Magazine’ for two decades. In 2003, he featured in a documentary titled, ‘Flight from Death.' He also co-produced an award-winning PBS documentary titled, ‘Faces of the Enemy.' Some of his popular works, both in print and out of print include, ‘Hymns to an Unknown God,' ‘In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred,' ‘Your Mythic Journey,' ‘Apology For Wonder,’ and ‘The Passionate Life’ amongst various others. Following is a mass of inspiring quotes and thoughts by Sam Keen that are sure to enlighten you. Go through the interesting quotes and sayings by Sam Keen which has been accumulated from his writings, thoughts, books, letters, philosophies and other works.
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.
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.
Sam Keen
To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.
To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere.
Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions.
Sam Keen
Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority.
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
Sam Keen
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author
