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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.

Ken Keyes Jr.

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Ken Keyes Jr.
Age: 74 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 19
Died: 1995
Died: December 20
Author
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Atlanta
Georgia
Ken Keyes
Consciousness
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Needs
Dead
Letting
Future
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Enjoy
Expectations
Reality
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Past
Awareness
Everything
Unless
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