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More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
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.
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.
Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need.
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.
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.
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.
