Sam Keen

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

— Sam Keen

Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then…

— Sam Keen

“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

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

— Sam Keen

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

— Sam Keen

Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect…

— Sam Keen

We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I…

— Sam Keen

“Many people wake up in middle age with the realization that in their youthful romances and early marriages, they were drawn to…

— Sam Keen

The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises…

— Sam Keen

I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into…

— Sam Keen

The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance…

— Sam Keen

“Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions.”

— Sam Keen

“We are grass of the field. We flourish for a season and then fade. Death wipes us out. Yet, we are part…

— Sam Keen

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

— Sam Keen

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

— Sam Keen

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that…

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You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

— Sam Keen

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

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author”

— Sam Keen

The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our…

— Sam Keen

Trust what moves you most deeply.

— Sam Keen

A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly /…

— Sam Keen

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

— Sam Keen

There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return…

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In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the…

— Sam Keen