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Sacred Quotes by Sam Keen

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Sam Keen’s reflections on the sacred draw the divine into the ordinary, urging readers to recognize moments of awe in daily routines. His thoughtful prose bridges spirituality and practicality, suggesting that reverence can be cultivated through simple acts of attention, gratitude and presence.

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Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to…

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I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into…

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A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly /…

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The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to…

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On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten…

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

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In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop…

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To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

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There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…

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Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,…

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Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

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If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the…

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To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way.…

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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…

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Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

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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…

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If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the…

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“A man who does not know how to wage a just battle, first with himself and then with others, has no values worth defending,…

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