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There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

Sam Keen

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Sam Keen
Age: 54
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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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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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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.
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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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