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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.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- To Love and Be Loved, Sam Keen
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.
- Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man, Sam Keen
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
- Sam Keen
Trust what moves you most deeply.
- Sam Keen
Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
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I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.
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Freedom is an inside job.
- Hymns To An Unknown God : Awakening The Spirit In Everyday Life, Sam Keen![]()
We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.
- Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions, Sam Keen![]()
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.
- Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening The Spirit In Everyday Life, 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'.
- The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving, Sam Keen![]()
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.
- To Love and Be Loved, Sam Keen![]()
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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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.
- Hymns To An Unknown God : Awakening The Spirit In Everyday Life, Sam Keen![]()
Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions.
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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.
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You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author
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The question that surrounds lovemaking is, "Did you cum?" and the unasked question beneath that is, "Am I all right?
- Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man, Sam Keen
