144 Quotes by Sam Keen

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It’s a theme that goes through all of my work.

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 much.

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 dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

I think it’s increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

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

Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

It’s perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that’s meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won’t confuse your job with the meaning of your life.

At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn’t immediately real; it was always something “out there.” My deeply held illusions of immortality – a product of my very conservative religious upbringing – were still pretty much intact.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was “thank you,” that would be sufficient. – MEISTER ECKHART.