Sam Keen Quotes

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• To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
• If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling…
• The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that…
• 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 of…
• What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.
• There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'…
• To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.
• The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,…
• We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial…
• In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.
• The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature…
• The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete…
• The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.
• Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always…
• Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking…
• Trust what moves you most deeply.
• The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
• We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.
• I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that…
• Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,…

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