Sam Keen Quotes

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

Many people don't know about the power of good feelings, and so their feelings are reactions or responses to what happens to them. They have put their feelings on automatic pilot, instead of deliberately taking charge of them.

You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

I don't get emotional.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I have never been offended. I don't know what it means. It's not that I disagree with it. I don't understand it. I've never had that feeling. I don't let feelings control my life. I'm more disciplined than other people.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.