Sam Keen
Sam Keen
Sam Keenis an American author, professor, and philosopher who is best known for his exploration of questions regarding love, life, religion, and being a man in contemporary society. He also co-produced Faces of the Enemy, an award-winning PBS documentary; was the subject of a Bill Moyers' television special in the early 1990s; and for 20 years served as a contributing editor at Psychology Today magazine. He is also featured in the 2003 documentary Flight from Death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.
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.
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.
To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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.
What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?
The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.
We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.