Ken Keyes Jr. Quotes About Addiction

Quotes about: Addiction

• Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Consciousness, Distinction

• I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Serenity, Trying

• Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Gourmet, Consciousness

• Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Wise, Addiction, Demand

• By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Roots

• Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations of movies and plays, creating a certain environment in their home, and so on. Looking for happiness through sensations keeps you constantly searching for the next "fix" and for more varied sensations. Sensations become addictions, and nothing is ever enough.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Sex, Home, Creating

• Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Giving Up, Mean, Addiction

• We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Input, Information

• Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, People, Addiction

• Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Spiritual, Addiction, Warning

• Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Spiritual, Addiction, Want

• I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  People, Addiction, World

• I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Thinking, Addiction, Growth

• I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Addiction

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