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More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.
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.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.
You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.
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.
As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.
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.