Sam Keen Quotes

All concord's born of contraries.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

God is Unity, but always works in variety.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

To everything there is a season.

Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.