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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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Atlanta
Georgia
Ken Keyes
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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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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.
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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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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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Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.
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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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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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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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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
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Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.
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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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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
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