In a pluralistic culture . . . every individual must create a private mythological system. I must discover within myself the Garden of Eden from which I am exiled and the New Jeruselem toward which I am journeying. And must bear the burden of being my own redeemer, my own Christ.
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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 the direction of his life.
Sam KeenStichwörter: hymns-to-an-unknown-god
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam KeenStichwörter: love perfect learn person
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam KeenThe sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
Sam KeenStichwörter: inspirational spiritual religious
Freedom is an inside job.
Sam KeenWithout knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority.
Sam KeenBurnout 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 KeenStichwörter: wisdom depression burnout
I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.
Sam KeenWhoever authors your story authorizes your actions.
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