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Addiction Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
- Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
- Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
- 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 see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly…
- 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…
- Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your…
- 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…
- Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.
- Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations of movies and…
- Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.
- 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…
- I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.
- I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary…
- I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to…
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- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh… — Roseanne Barr
- Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. — Drew Barrymore
- Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. — Bruce Barton
- All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put… — Henry Ward Beecher
- A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. — Allan Bloom
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. — Lara Flynn Boyle
- It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the… — Russell Brand