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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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Ken Keyes Jr.
Age: 74 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 19
Died: 1995
Died: December 20
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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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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.
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I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.
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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.
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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.
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Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.
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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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All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.
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People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
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