Quotes by Chris Prentiss

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

... all decisions and actions that will affect your relationship must be made by answering this single question: Will the action I am considering have a negative impact on my relationship? If the answer is yes, dont do it.

Every person in the AA program whos successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking, but it isnt open to everyone. Its open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. Thats the difference between our brain and a computer.

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

If you are surrounded by people who not only dont believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

What determines each persons state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

The answers are never out there. All the answers are in there, inside you, waiting to be discovered.

Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you dont believe something is possible, you wont even attempt it.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

Your actions create an energy vortex that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and reduce it to one word: energy. Its all energy. Scientists say that if you cant measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesnt exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not it.

The energy everything is made of is conscious. Its alive.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.