144 Quotes by Sam Keen

The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

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.

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

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

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.

A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?