Reviews for The passionate life

The average rating for The passionate life based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-06 00:00:00 Eric Vincent Map and some quotes: P27 book outlines "We age in order to become lovers." P30 "The path that leads..from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, or addiction and the hunger for Being-becoming-itself, or illusory needs and real needs."P138 Reading Sam Keen, I realize that I am too, an addict of a few things. He teaches me to use my witness self to "begin the adventure of falling in love with the multiplicity of the self and the world." P140 "Confession and repentance aren't feeling sorry for peccadillos, but seeing how we have been captive inside the machine of personality, a prisoner of ideologies, an automaton manipulated by defense mechanisms" " We can never begin anything new without forgiveness." P150 This book gives useful heuristics to understand maturity and to identify addiction in its most general sense. After reading it, I had the best sleep in a long while.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-18 00:00:00 Anthony Markowski This was my inaugural Sam Keen read. It will be the first of many. Without any exaggeration, this book showed me my new purpose, what to do with my time in this oddly inert post-transcendent state. Keen's prose drips saccharine with effortless poetry and nourishes the linguist with etymological winks and nudges throughout. If you're feeling like a metaphysical rogue, an outlaw, apply this text to your ajna immediately.