Ken Keyes Jr. Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.

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  Important, Consciousness, Grows

• You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

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  Giving, Suffering, World

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

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  Addiction, Consciousness, Distinction

• By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.

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  Trying, Tuning, Flow

• I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

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  Past, Reality, Expectations

• Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Emotional

• If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

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  Want, Way, Helping

• 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.

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  Addiction, Gourmet, Consciousness

• As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.

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  Perfect, Might, Consciousness

• The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

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  Real, Mind, Life Is

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

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  Wise, Addiction, Demand

• You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."

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  Upset, World, Realizing

• Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.

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  Thinking, People, Vision

• 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.

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  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.

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  Sex, Home, Creating

• You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.

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  Unhappy, Patterns, Consciousness

• If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won't compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation.

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  Upset, Suffering, Machines

• Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.

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  Order, Rivers, People

• View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness.

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  Journey, Views, Consciousness

• There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.

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  One Day, Needs, Done

• You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.

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  Emotional, Consciousness, Turmoil

• We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

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  Personality, Ego, Consciousness

• Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need.

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  Thinking, Giving, World

• When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.

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  Mean, Blow, Reality

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

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  Giving Up, Mean, Addiction

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