The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men. — Sam Keen Advice Copy Share Image
We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage. — Sam Keen Courage Copy Share Image
You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. — Sam Keen Change Copy Share Image
The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together. — Sam Keen Life Copy Share Image
I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way. — Sam Keen Darkness Copy Share Image
The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more… — Sam Keen Existence Copy Share Image
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing… — Sam Keen Abstract Copy Share Image
We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words,… — Sam Keen Always trying Copy Share Image
When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings… — Sam Keen Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Archetype Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to… — Sam Keen Age Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of… — Sam Keen Art Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in… — Sam Keen Age Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Family Copy Share Image
As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that… — Sam Keen Attention Copy Share Image
“Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each… — Sam Keen Love Copy Share Image
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our… — Sam Keen Authority Copy Share Image
Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms… — Sam Keen Culture Copy Share Image
![“We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the…” quote by Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/002/sam-keen-4929_airborne_we-all-yearn-to-fly-we-are-creatures-of_890048.jpg)
