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Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go
“The topic of flying trapeze promises dramatic reading, but in the hands of literary maestro Sam Keen it becomes a school for living. Combining sixty-plus years of wisdom with the passion, honesty, and enthusiasm of a beginning flyer, Keen conveys how learning to fly provides a path to timeless adventure and newfound joy. Whether or not you plan to take up the trapeze, you can learn to fly.” –Dan Millman, author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior “Like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Learning to Fly is both concrete and metaphorical and, as usual, Sam Keen is honest, thoughtful, wry, and inspired. In this book, flying is a metaphor for risk,...
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$10.99
Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions
Keen explores blue Mondays and black moods and the draggy feeling of monotony when familiar routines seem confining. The author comes up with many interesting ways to cope with boredom including wonder, imagination, enthusiasm, being present in one’s activities, meditation as a way of examining what is, and practicing the art of doing nothing. Keen concludes that “authentic happiness is only possible when we allow ourselves to experience the full range of human emotions, including boredom, fear, grief, anger and...
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Fire In The Belly
This book, along with Robert Bly’s Iron John, was credited by the popular press with initiating the “men’s movement”. Although I have never beat on drums or passed a talking stick, I do plead guilty to some in depth explorations of what it means to be a man in this troubled time. And, I am gratified to know that this book was helpful to many men and women. Tom Peters “I did a lot of reading at Canyon Ranch, nothing more important than Sam Keen’s Fire in the Belly.” Reviewer: Kelly. Not your typical self-help book. I felt a little weird going through the check-out line with a book “on being a man” when...
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$15.00
Beginnings Without End
A deeply personal compendium of diary entries, poems, fantasies,stories, an account of the process of spiritual death and renewal I went through in a crisis that involved divorce, leaving the academic world and severing my roots. “A moving, lucid and penetrating account of the places where Keen found an oasis, a helping spirit, a devouring demon, a rushing river or a tree with magical...
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Apology for Wonder
A plea for the recovery of wonder, awe and the sense of the sacred that lies at the heart of all authentic philosophy and religion. Chosen by both Newsweek and Time magazines as one of the best 10 books in its field in 1969. It remains the linchpin of all my thinking. All orders are fulfilled by Sam Keen, Ph.D. If you would like your book autographed, please indicate to...
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