We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen More Quotes by Sam Keen More Quotes From Sam Keen 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 strugglebelieveinteresting 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 fleetingmaypeople 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 importantpeoplethinking 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 airowltree 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 realreligiousworld 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 hopelessnessplanetsdespair 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-familywho-we-areculture 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 differentoceanskins The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do. Sam Keen wellsmysteryknows 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 mysteriousmysterythinking 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-experienceschildrenworld Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen findsdeeplazinesssummer
