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Ken Keyes Jr. was an American author, born on January 19, 1921, and passed away on December 20, 1995. He is known for his profound philosophical thinking and critical social commentary, often exploring the relationship between individuals and society, as well as the meaning of human existence.

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“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.”

Doe Said Done Spiritual Consciousness Compassion Love You Experiencing Everything

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“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?”

Needs Spiritual Realizing Direct

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“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.”

Spiritual Consciousness Higher Claims Including Awakening Oneness Planes Unconditional Love Unconditional Higher Consciousness Birthright

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“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.”

“The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.”

Moments Past Happiness Spiritual Eternal Mental Health Imaginary

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

Giving Happiness Joy Accepting Willing Laughter

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“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!”

Ifs Want Love Mind Important Love Is Ego True Love Convince Love Life Happy Life Live Happy

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“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.”

People Looks Enough Play Home Certain Next Sex Sound Consciousness Environment Taste Creating Addiction Sensations Higher Consciousness Sound Of Music Looking For Happiness

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“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.”

People Trying Children Ends Happiness Effort Gold Happy Pot Rainbow Fulfilled Chasing Here And Now Pot Of Gold Chasing Rainbows

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

Happens Consciousness Wise Demand Addiction Preference Parades

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“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.”

Responsibility Childhood Percent Hundred Adults Responsible Programming Affirmation Personal Responsibility Fixing Responsibility For Your Life Responsibility For Children

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

Ifs Enough Enjoy Gratitude

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“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'.”

Waiting Personal Development Spares Delay Spare Time

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

World Should Mind Wise Positive Law Of Attraction Power Of The Mind

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“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.”

Needs Feels Problem Growth Compassion Messages Caught Offering Caught Up Predicaments

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“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.”

Feels Energy Consciousness Growing Seven Inner Peace Centre

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“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.”

People Action My Own Responsibility Influence Reactions Programming Here And Now

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“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.”

Trying Situation Security Addiction Sensations Serenity Loving Myself

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“I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.”

Ifs Acting Consciousness Flow Upset Depriving

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

People World Consciousness Situation Addiction Versions Discovering Illusory Dominating

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“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.”

People Feelings Willing Degrees Illusion Communicate Stuck Hiding Separateness Deepest Feelings

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“I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.”

Thinking Feels Growth Emotion Consciousness Accepting Higher Addiction Including Here And Now Higher Consciousness

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“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.”

Mind Order Energy Rational Perceive Restless Calming Scanning

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“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.”

Ifs Opportunity Minutes Emotional Offers Addiction Patterns Painful Welcome Robots Liberated

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“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.”

Enough Winning Loses Conditions Overcoming Had Enough Prestige

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

Beautiful Beauty Acquire Mislead Happiness And Love Peace Love

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Born: January 19, 1921
Died: December 20, 1995
Known for: Author
Quotes: 76

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