144 Quotes by Sam Keen

I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day’s events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don’t have the answers any more.

In problems of logic, contradictory statements cannot be true; in the psyche, only contradictions are true. Self-image and shadow are Siamese twins, and the psyche is equally formed by the conscious and unconscious. Whatever appears to be true on the surface is linked to an opposite truth beneath the surface. What you see is not what you get.

There is a saying in Bali: “We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible.” This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world.

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

You can know what’s in your life when you know what’s in your heart.

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

The root of humanly caused evil is not man’s animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don’t mean anything.