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Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.

Sam Keen

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Sam Keen
Age: 54
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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 which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all.
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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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To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.
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Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.
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The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
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The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.
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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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If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.
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When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
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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 modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.
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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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I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.
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I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.
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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.
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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 the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.
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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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There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.
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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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