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More Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.
Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
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.
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
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.
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."
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 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.
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.
