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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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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.
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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
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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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Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.
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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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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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View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness.
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Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.
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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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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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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
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It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.
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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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By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life.
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The past is dead The future is imaginary Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.
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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?
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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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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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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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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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