Love

In our society, we’ve become myopic and obsessive about one particular kind of love: dyadic love, which takes the form of romance, sex, marriage.
As a result we end up asking all the wrong questions.

Books about relationships talk about how to “get” the love you need, how to “keep” the love and so on. But the right question to ask is
“How do I become a more loving human being?”
— Sam Keen

who??????

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."
-Sam Keen

Blessings

My friend Traci took this picture.....the second trip to Sunset Beach was even more beautiful than the one 4 years earlier. hope you like the words below.
love,
Michele

Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings
of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed
to you personally.  Expect omens, epiphanies, casual
blessings, and teachers who unknowingly speak to your
condition.
~  Sam Keen, Hymns to an Unknown God

Express Your Emotions

"The ability to feel is indivisible.

Repress awareness of any one feeling and all feelings are dulled.

When we refuse to allow fear we correspondingly lose the ability to wonder.

When we repress our grief we blunt our capacity to experience joy.

The same nerve endings are required for weeping and dancing, fear and ecstasy."

quote by Sam Keen

— Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

Extra Ordinary Encounters

Morning Dew



"Love, like cardinals that suddenly appear from the wild blue yonder,
always seems to be a gift we do not deserve.
Love is the opening through which we have the best
chance of glimpsing an abiding presence of the sacred within Being itself.
In the degree that we are cherished as children or adults,
a loving conspiracy is woven around us that undergirds our lives
with a sense of the sacred. Love, as Gabriel Marcel,
the French philosopher, says, is 'a concrete approach to the mystery of being.
' These days, gathering the memories of the important people in my life,
I am reminded that the love freely given to me, no less than my DNA,
has informed my trajectory through life, my destiny."
— Sam Keen in Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds

Loving the questions

Below are some writings by Sam Keen. I really like him. He is in his 70's and still swings on a trapeze!!
I saw him teaching a class at Omega on the art of trapeze a few summers ago. How fun would that be??!!!-Michele

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."-Sam Keen

How can I find a meaning, purpose, vocation for my life?

What can I know?

What ought I to do?

For what may I hope?

Is there life beyond death?

Whom do I love? Who loves me?

What curtails my freedom?

How can I escape from the constricting social, political, sexual, and economic myths that were imposed on me by my family and culture?

To what cause, ideal, faith may I surrender without destroying the integrity of my self?

What does it mean to experience the sacred?

How can I live a spirited life in a world dominated by a secular-technological-economic vision of reality?

How can we create a more just and peaceful world?

“ Always the beautiful answer. Who asks a more beautiful question?"

ee cummings

Sam Keen was, in his words, "overeducated at Harvard and Princeton" and was a professor of philosophy and religion at "various legitimate institutions" and a contributing editor of Psychology Today for 20 years before becoming a free-lance thinker, lecturer, seminar leader and consultant. He is the author of a baker's dozen books, and a co-producer of an award winning PBS documentary, Faces of the Enemy. His work was the subject of a 60 minute PBS special Bill Moyers--Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen

http://www.samkeen.com/