Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

— Sam Keen

Sam Keen Quotes

It’s interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of it. But it’s like being in quicksand: the more you struggle the deeper you sink.

— Sam Keen

If we don’t preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won’t have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we’re realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

— Sam Keen

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

— Sam Keen

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

— Sam Keen

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.

— Sam Keen

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

— Sam Keen

I think we’re inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn’t give us meaning, only material things.

— Sam Keen

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.

— Sam Keen

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

— Sam Keen

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

— Sam Keen

I’ve spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

— Sam Keen

The more we chase away the false mysteries – those things we think we know about ourselves and others – the more mysterious our existence becomes.

— Sam Keen

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

— Sam Keen

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.

— Sam Keen

Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn’t want to live in a world where all wild things – without and within – are domesticated.

— Sam Keen

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.

— Sam Keen

A man who does not know how to wage a just battle, first with himself and then with others, has no values worth defending, no ideals worth aspiring to, no awareness of the disease of which he might be healed. And no mensch worships the status quo.

— Sam Keen

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

— Sam Keen

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. – RALPH SOCKMAN.

— Sam Keen

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

— Sam Keen
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