Sam Keen Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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.

  Sam Keen

  Optimism, Walking Dead, Soul

• 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.

  Sam Keen

  Jobs, People, Soul

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.168, Bantam

• 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.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Journey, Soul

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

• 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

  Communication, Compassion, Our World

  Sam Keen (1994). “Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit in Everyday Life”, Bantam

• You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

  Sam Keen

  Dark, Night, Personal Transformation

• The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Men, Ideas

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.66, Bantam

• There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. 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.

  Sam Keen

  Jobs, Self Worth, People

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.168, Bantam

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