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More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
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.
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
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 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.