What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. — 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
We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together. — Sam Keen 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 Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless;… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of… — 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… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to… — Sam Keen 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 [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - ,… — 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 Copy Share Image
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — 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
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