Spirituality Quotes by Sam Keen

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

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

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

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

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

— Sam Keen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

— Sam Keen

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny…

— Sam Keen

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the…

— Sam Keen

“A man who does not know how to wage a just battle, first with himself and then with others, has no values worth defending,…

— Sam Keen