Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness,… — Sam Keen 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 life, all… — 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 other, saying… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,… — 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 of the… — Sam Keen 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 the way.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
