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It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.
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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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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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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Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.
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Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.
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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
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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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Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.
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Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need.
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People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
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We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.
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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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I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
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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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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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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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We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.
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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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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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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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