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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?
Ken Keyes Jr.
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Ken Keyes Jr.
Age: 74 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 19
Died: 1995
Died: December 20
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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
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Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.
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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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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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You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
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Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.
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