The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.
Sam Keen
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.
Sam Keen
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.
Sam Keen
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.
Sam Keen
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.
Sam Keen
