People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.
First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust.
You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.
Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.
Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.
Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.
To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.
A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.
The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.
What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.
The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will come about.
The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I’m aware.
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
There is no cell culture for depression. You can’t see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.
If you feel depressed for an hour, you’ve produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.
When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.
You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.
You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you’ll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.
The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist– you’ve been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.
The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning “one”) and versus (meaning “turned into”). It literally means “one turned into.
The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.
When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax’s life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I’ve seen it happen over and over again.
When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.
What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.
When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: “This is for my benefit.
There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
You don’t need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.
You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
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, don’t do it.
Every person in the AA program who’s successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
A computer cannot manufacture new information. That’s 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.
What determines each person’s 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 don’t believe something is possible, you won’t 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.
The energy everything is made of is conscious. It’s 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.
When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax’s life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.
It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.
Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.
We know that you don’t want to be a drunk and you don’t want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can’t cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.
Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.