Ken Keyes Jr. Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!

How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?

I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

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.

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.

Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.

Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will then be able to enjoy whatever money you receive, but your happiness will not be contingent on the size of your bank account.

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

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

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

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

Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.

I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.

I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.

Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.

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.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.