Sam Keen

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Sam Keen is a noted American author, professor and philosopher who is best known for his exploration of questions regarding love, life, religion, and being a man in contemporary society. He also co-produced an award-winning PBS documentary, was the subject of a Bill Moyers television special in the early 1990s, and for 20 years served as a contributing editor at Psychology Today magazine.

Keen completed his undergraduate studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and later completed graduate degrees at Harvard University and Princeton University.

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“If we cut the world's population by 90%, there won't be enough people left to do ecological damage.”

"The practice of philosophy is a way of life that results from falling in love with questions---the great mythic questions that can never be given definitive answers."

"There are two questions you ask in life; where am I going and who's going with me. Don't get them in the wrong order."

"One day, out of nowhere, you realize you don't know who you are, and none of the cards in your wallet provide the slightest clue to your real identity."

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

"Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you are looking for somebody who will always be "nice" to you. ("Nice" gets you a C+ in life.) We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry."

"Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change his direction in life." (Hymns to an Unknown God)[1]

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  • In print:
  • Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Chronicle Books, 2007)
  • Faces of the Enemy (Harper and Row, 2004)
  • Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go (1999)
  • To Love and Be Loved (Bantam, 1997)
  • Hymns to an Unknown God (Bantam, 1994)
  • Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions (Bantam, 1992)
  • Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man (Bantam, 1991)
  • Your Mythic Journey (Tarcher, 1990)
  • Out of Print:
  • The Passionate Life (Harper and Row)
  • Beginnings Without End (Harper and Row, 1975)
  • To a Dancing God (Harper and Row, 1970)
  • Apology for Wonder (Harper and Row, 1969)

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