Ken Keyes Jr. Quotes

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

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

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.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

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.

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

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.

The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

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.

If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

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 serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need.

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.

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.

As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

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

I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

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

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?

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.

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!

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.

Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

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

All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All.

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

Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.

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.

Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.

I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.

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.

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

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