More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
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.
To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.
The love and peace of higher consciousness flow from just being - and enjoying it all. Anything you do will not be enough unless you feel fulfilled in just being. Usually we are not happy when we find doing whatever it is that we think we have to do. Doing creates expectations that your world and the people around you may or may not fit. The things we do disappear in time. We must learn to appreciate just being alive in the nowness of whatever situation we are in.
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
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.
Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need.
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.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
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.