“In the presence of our addictions, we are not free to ask what we really desire. Eros is silent. The addiction floods us with the noise of its demands, the plans for its satisfaction. There is no interval for deliberation.”

— Sam Keen

Source: The Passionate Life (1983), p. 139

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author, professor, and philosopher 1931

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