Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Ken Keyes Jr.

The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.

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."

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness 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 past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.

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.

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

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

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 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.

You should always be aware that your head creates your 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.

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.

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.

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 is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.

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.

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.

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

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.

By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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