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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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Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
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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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