Sam Keen Quotes (8 Quotes)

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.

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.

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

The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

Call it womb awe or even womb worship but it's not simple envy. I don't 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

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

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