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By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.
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More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
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.
There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
You should always be aware that your head creates your world.
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."
Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.
