There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author” — Sam Keen Books Copy Share Image
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our… — Sam Keen Authority 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… — Sam Keen Love Copy Share Image
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it… — Sam Keen Abyss Copy Share Image
“...one part of love is sweet and easy, something we fall into and are swept away by. But the other part is… — Sam Keen Discipline Copy Share Image
“In a pluralistic culture . . . every individual must create a private mythological system. I must discover within myself the Garden… — Sam Keen Garden of eden Copy Share Image
Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into… — Sam Keen Darkness Copy Share Image
It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real… — Sam Keen Career Copy Share Image
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions… — Sam Keen Conservative Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to… — 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… — Sam Keen Culture Copy Share Image
Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“We are grass of the field. We flourish for a season and then fade. Death wipes us out. Yet, we are part… — Sam Keen Astronomy Copy Share Image
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass… — Sam Keen Anxiety Copy Share Image
Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone… — Sam Keen Always smile Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Family Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Aspiration Copy Share Image
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with… — Sam Keen Bored Copy Share Image
