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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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Georgia
Ken Keyes
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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.
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Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.
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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
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I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.
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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
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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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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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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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View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness.
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You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.
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