More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.
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.
I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.
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.
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.
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."
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.
The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
