Sam Keen
Quotes by Sam Keen
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Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.
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The question that surrounds lovemaking is, Did you cum? and the unasked question beneath that is, Am I all right?
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The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair.
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The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
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Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
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The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair.
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Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
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Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.
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The question that surrounds lovemaking is, Did you cum? and the unasked question beneath that is, Am I all right?
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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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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We have to move from the illusion of certainty to the certainty of illusion.
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