Ken Keyes Jr. Quotes

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You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

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Responsibility, Childhood, Fixing

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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

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Love, Inspirational, Positive

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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

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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

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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

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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

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Inspirational, Happiness, Karma

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Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

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Happiness, Success, Frustration

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

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Education, Teacher, Teaching

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Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

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Love, Heart, Law Of Attraction

Ken Keyes, Jr. (2010). “Three Prescriptions for Happiness”, p.84, Axios Press

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Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

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Waiting, Delay, Personal Development

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Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

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People, Choices, Trying

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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

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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

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

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Real, Mind, Life Is

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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

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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.

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Addiction, Input, Information

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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

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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.

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Addiction, Serenity, Trying

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Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.

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Attitude, Differences, Heaven

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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

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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

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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

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The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.

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Insecure, Emotional, Feelings

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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

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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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Born: January 19, 1921
Died: December 20, 1995
Occupation: Author
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