Sam Keen

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

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.

Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.

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 major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

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

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

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

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

Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

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

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.

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