The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Sam Keen More Quotes by Sam Keen More Quotes From Sam Keen We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor! Sam Keen fleeting may people I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work. Sam Keen important people thinking 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 air owl tree 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 real religious world 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 hopelessness planets despair If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are. Sam Keen good-family who-we-are culture 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 different ocean skins The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do. Sam Keen wells mystery knows 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 mysterious mystery thinking 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. Sam Keen mystical-experiences children world We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen person learning perfect love Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen finds deep laziness summer
