More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing.
To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
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.
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.
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.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
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.
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.
