“I have come to believe that “the quest” is a metaphor for the willingness to live and wrestle with the perennial questions that underlie the mythic answers that religion offers. My “question” is the “quest I’m on.” – Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

“The mystic vision is based not on a calculation of the probabilities but on the intuition of a promise that is not only within us but is in some way the essence of who we are. “  ~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

“Only the wondering eye sees the sacred horizon enfolded within the petals of a blue flower.”
~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

“To be fully animated, we must find ways to take the cream of our experience – the high and holy moments of inspiration – and merge it into the ordinary minutes of our average days. It’s easy to get high; it’s a challenge to remain soulful. ” ~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

”Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation – speaking and listening – communication deepens into compassion and creates community.” ~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

“Each of us must make awesome decisions about whether we are or may become free, what we value, when and to whom we make commitments, whether to trust or mistrust the mystery that encompasses us, how we will tell the story of our life. ” ~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

“Considering the inherent limits of the finite human mind and our nearly inexhaustible capacity for self-deception, we may actually be closest to the truth when we remain acutely aware of our ignorance. ” ~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

“We might consider the in-spirited life as a kind of divine madness that heals us, a symbolic consciousness that brings together the surface and the depths.” ~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God

“The task of imagining and creating new forms of community in which humans remember and cherish their kinship with the nonhuman world is our new vocation. ” ~~ Sam Keen: Hymns To An Unknown God

“In consecrating our days by ritual, we play the game of sacred poetry in which one thing is allowed to signify another. ” ~~ Sam Keen – Hymns To An Unknown God