Chris Prentiss Quotes

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies, it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware.

~ Chris Prentiss

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

~ Chris Prentiss

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

~ Chris Prentiss

The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning one) and versus (meaning turned into). It literally means one turned into.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating alcoholism as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying scratchism for people who have a chronic itch.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

~ Chris Prentiss

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the plate and took action to help a crippled population. All credit for the establishment of their wonderful, life-saving group goes to them and to those who came after them who have continued the tradition. However, there are hundreds of millions of people who still need help who are not among the estimated two or three million who attend twelve-step meetings.

~ Chris Prentiss

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: This is for my benefit.

~ Chris Prentiss

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

~ Chris Prentiss

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

~ Chris Prentiss

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

~ Chris Prentiss

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

~ 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.

~ Chris Prentiss

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

~ Chris Prentiss

... 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.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal, you tune in different frequencies.

~ Chris Prentiss

If you are surrounded by people who not only don't 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.

~ Chris Prentiss

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

~ Chris Prentiss

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

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

~ Chris Prentiss

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

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

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. It's all energy. Scientists say that if you can't measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesn't exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not it.

~ Chris Prentiss

The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

~ Chris Prentiss

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

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Chris Prentiss