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
spiritual journey soul
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.
spiritual peace challenges
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
spiritual gratitude produce
The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.
spiritual thinking always-trying
The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.
spiritual gratitude ego
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.
spiritual children journey
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.
american-author finding imperfect learning love
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
finding imperfect love perfect seeing
Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
finding imperfect learning love perfect perfectly
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly
beginning birth call create equal giving goddess men present quite remember simple since three time wanting
Call it ""womb awe"" or even ""womb worship"" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?
writing thinking stories
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.
dark night thinking
I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.
thinking self darkness
I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.
answers illusion loses
When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.