It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning… — 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
