Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference: — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions)… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry,… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
The love and peace of higher consciousness flow from just being - and enjoying it all. Anything you do will not be… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire,… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music,… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.” — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
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.… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
