Chris Prentiss Quotes
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At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.
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Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.
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You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.
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Choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.
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Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
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Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.
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You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
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What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
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If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
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Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.
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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.
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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.
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The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
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Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
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The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.
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How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.
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Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.
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Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.
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Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment.
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The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
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The true source of happiness is within each of us.
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I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
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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.
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The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.