Ken Keyes Jr. Quotes

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

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.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

You should always be aware that your head creates your world.

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.

You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.

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.

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.

Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.

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?

You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness.

I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

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 plays, creating a certain environment in their home, and so on. Looking for happiness through sensations keeps you constantly searching for the next "fix" and for more varied sensations. Sensations become addictions, and nothing is ever enough.

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.

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.

I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.

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.

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

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."