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Sam Keen Quotes about Love

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

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

Sam Keen
Love, Friendship, Anniversary

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

Sam Keen
Love, Healing, Becoming
Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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

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