More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
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.
Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.
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.
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
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."
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.
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.
