63 Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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