Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference. Ken Keyes Jr. More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr. More Quotes From Ken Keyes Jr. 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. Ken Keyes Jr. addiction responsibility people Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. Ken Keyes Jr. laughter happiness giving You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable." Ken Keyes Jr. upset realizing world Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized. Ken Keyes Jr. addiction giving-up mean 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. Ken Keyes Jr. spiritual people thinking Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences. Ken Keyes Jr. demand addiction wise You should always be aware that your head creates your world. Ken Keyes Jr. law-of-attraction wise positive 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 be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns. Ken Keyes Jr. addiction emotional opportunity When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire. Ken Keyes Jr. blow mean reality 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 happiness depend on them. Ken Keyes Jr. gourmet addiction consciousness Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be. Ken Keyes Jr. vision people thinking When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing. Ken Keyes Jr. insecure honesty people To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it. Ken Keyes Jr. self-awareness spiritual drama I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. Ken Keyes Jr. addiction people world Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way. Ken Keyes Jr. addiction warning spiritual Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude. Ken Keyes Jr. differences attitude heaven I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me. Ken Keyes Jr. responsibility action people 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. Ken Keyes Jr. rivers order people I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people. Ken Keyes Jr. degrees feelings people 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. addiction information input
