“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.” KnowsWayLongRealJobsHoursWeekFortyMeaninglessVocation Author:Sam Keen
“The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.” KnowsWellsMystery Author:Sam Keen
“I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.” KnowsMysteriousCultivating Author: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.” ThinkingKnowsExistenceMysteryMysterious Author:Sam Keen
“I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.” ThinkingKnowsTryingHumansBeliefRealizingMetaphysicalSteers Author: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.” PeopleKnowsGivingDifferentWholeWisdomAbleGrowthCreativityEconomyWiseSpringSeasonsWinterSicknessLife And DeathDecayContradictoryImpotenceWise PeopleSeasons Of Life Author:Sam Keen