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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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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
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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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I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.
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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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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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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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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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Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.
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Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.
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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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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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I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
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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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We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.
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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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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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You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.
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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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