"The lover heals the world not by a……" — Sam Keen
"The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places."
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48 Quotes by Sam Keen
Sam Keen has 48 quotes on this site.
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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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If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of…
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The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away…
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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…
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What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.
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There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is…
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To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.
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The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive…
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We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne.…
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In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities,…
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The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to…
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The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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