Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively. Ken Keyes Jr. More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr. More Quotes From Ken Keyes Jr. 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 flooding in through all of your sensory inputs. Ken Keyes Jr. addictioninformationinput 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. Ken Keyes Jr. memorieswaythinking 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. Ken Keyes Jr. insecureemotionalfeelings You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy. Ken Keyes Jr. patternsconsciousnessunhappy 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. egoconsciousnesspersonality Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person. Ken Keyes Jr. heartlovemean How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have? Ken Keyes Jr. realizingspiritualneeds You can always create your own experience of life in a beautiful and enjoyable way if you keep your love turned on within you- regardless of what other people say or do. Ken Keyes Jr. beautifullovepeople No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some. Ken Keyes Jr. had-enoughovercomingwinning It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness. Ken Keyes Jr. happiness-and-lovebeautifulbeauty If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won't compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation. Ken Keyes Jr. upsetmachinessuffering You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil. Ken Keyes Jr. turmoilconsciousnessemotional All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All. Ken Keyes Jr. effortconsciousnessstudy Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need. Ken Keyes Jr. givingworldthinking There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment. Ken Keyes Jr. one-daydoneneeds People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now. Ken Keyes Jr. happyhappinesschildren Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing. Ken Keyes Jr. shelterdemandair I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future. Ken Keyes Jr. expectationsrealitypast We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have. Ken Keyes Jr. gratitudeenjoyenough 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 part of my growth into higher consciousness. Ken Keyes Jr. addictiongrowththinking
