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More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.
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.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
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.
