Quotes by Sam Keen

“Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.”

“A summers sun is worth the having.”

“The tough thing about following your heart is that people forget to metion that sometimes the heart takes you to places you shouldnt be. Places that are scary as they are exciting and as dangerous as they are alluring. Sometimes your heart cannot ta”

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer.”

“And summers lease hath all too short a date.”

“Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.”

“He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass”

“Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate”

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesnt go and doesnt suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say weve no money for butter”

“Burnout is natures way of telling you, youve been going through the motions your soul has departed; youre a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.”

“There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.”

“A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.”

“Call it womb awe or even womb worship but its not simple envy. I dont remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”

“You can know whats in your life when you know whats in your heart.”

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Burnout is natures way of telling you, youve been going through the motions your soul has departed; youre a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair.

The question that surrounds lovemaking is, Did you cum? and the unasked question beneath that is, Am I all right?

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and were encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.