Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men. — Sam Keen Advice Copy Share Image
The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled. — Sam Keen Alchemy Copy Share Image
Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. — Sam Keen Adventure Copy Share Image
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. — Sam Keen Heart Copy Share Image
I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that… — Sam Keen Attention Copy Share Image
A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly /… — Sam Keen Adventure 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation -… — Sam Keen Communication Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Archetype 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,… — Sam Keen Cadence Copy Share Image
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act… — Sam Keen Alchemy Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the… — Sam Keen Battle Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Keen Burnout Copy Share Image
If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But… — Sam Keen Atheism Copy Share Image
Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect… — Sam Keen Blessing 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
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 Awe 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.… — Sam Keen Awe 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 Existence Copy Share Image
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing… — Sam Keen Abstract Copy Share Image
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.… — 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… — Sam Keen Animal Copy Share Image
I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families… — Sam Keen Ability Copy Share Image
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit,… — Sam Keen Career Copy Share Image
If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And… — 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 Adventure 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
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