Sam Keen Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

  Sam Keen

  Successful, Play, Bored

  Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

• What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

  Sam Keen

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

• The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

  Sam Keen

  Strong, Men, Two

• There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

  Sam Keen

  Risk, Path, Saws

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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