Discovering the Secrets of Happiness: My Intimate Story

by Ken Keyes Jr.

Popular personal growth teacher and leader in the peace movement, Keyes shares his special story as he searches for lasting happiness and purpose in life. Shows how anyone can benefit from the wisdom... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915972158
• ISBN13: 9780915972159
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Love Line Books
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly Enlightened was dearest UNCONDITIONAL LOVING Ken

Ken was born on 1/19/1921. There is no mention of a story that could be interpreted as his 'fall from heaven story' in his youth (see my review of "in "Werner Erhard The Transformation of a Man"). At 25 Ken contacted polio & was on wheelchairs from then on & he was able to accept it as a great gift and it disappeared on p.25. In 1970, he met an incarnation of the 3rd Patriarch of Zen on p.86: "When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.... What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?... To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.... When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way." Plus with the 3 Noble Truths of Buddha, he found after 50 year the foundation of a science of happiness on p.90 & turned over his very successful real-estate business to an employee. The GENIUS of Ken can be seen in his invention of "TURNOVER" bed on pp.20-21 that "I devised a bed that would turn me from my back to my stomach or sit me up when I pushed a switch...it could turn two people as easily as one...I was later issued a US patent on it...I wanted to donate the patent to the Veteran Administration, hoping that many hospitalized people could once again live at home with their families...VA official...later sent me a polite letter saying that the VA 'did not buy turnover beds.' I wonder if the Wright brothers were ever sent a letter from the War Department saying it did not buy airplanes! So far as I know. I'm the only handicapped person who has enjoyed this wonderful bed. The patent has expired - and I'd still like to see this invention used to help people." SUPERMAN the actor, please take note, 'turnover bed' is a simpler cause than 'embryonic stem cell research'. because the former doesn't have any side-effect, while the later at the current level of human spiritual development will be a biological atom bomb. Plus anyone like my bed-ridden 80 year-old mom could make good use of a 'turnover bed' and hospitals too. In the Bahamas, Ken experienced enlightenment pp.117-118: "As I watched the sun setting into the water. I moved into experiencing my loneliness as caused by my demands - no thoughts of 'wouldn't it be wonderful if I had a partner.' Life was enough. I was enough!" for 45 minutes & then he completed his MASTERPIECE "The 12 Pathways to Unconditional Love and Happiness" & his "Handbook to Higher Consciousness". In ch. 16 Ken wrote "I had learned that the Greek word 'agape' refers to UNCONDITIONAL LOVE...As I become more aware, I found that unconditional love is a central theme in all major religions of humankind. In the Christian Bible. Paul wrote a letter to adherents in Corinth that very clearly defined UNCONDITIONAL LOVE: 'Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envio