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42c577d	A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.	ideas information intelligence	Chris Prentiss
bf1403e	If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the d..	addiction-and-recovery alcohol-addiction alcohol-treatment-center alcoholism chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse ecstasy heroin passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss prescription-abuse prescription-drugs self-help substance-abuse	Chris Prentiss
5d9006e	The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol.	addiction-and-recovery alcohol-addiction alcohol-treatment-center alcoholism beer chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse ecstasy heroin passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss prescription-abuse prescription-drugs self-help substance-abuse wine	Chris Prentiss
27ac740	The world is actually a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well, mirroring your changes.	chris-prentiss life passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes	Chris Prentiss
80b7065	Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core of life or passionately sees the surface, the core and the surface are essentially the same, words making them seem different only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: from wonder into wonder existence opens.		Chris Prentiss
2e32bd6	There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That way is simply: Be happy.		Chris Prentiss
d7dcbf3	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 drug-war headaches healing holistic-treatment pain passages-malibu pax-prentiss rehab remedies root-of-addiction war-on-drugs	Chris Prentiss
3e7ed5c	Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the individual issues at the core of dependency are just that- completely individual.	addiction-help addiction-philosophy addiction-treatment alcoholism change change-the-world-change-life chris-prenitss healing-addiction holistic-therapy non-12-step non12step one-on-one-therapy passages-malibu passages-ventura philosophy	Chris Prentiss
59dd835	Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.	inspiration life passages-malibu passages-ventura positive-thinking stress	Chris Prentiss
eae2cd9	Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities."	chris-prentiss happiness inspiration life philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness	Chris Prentiss
fbcbd33	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.	chris-prentiss coincidences goals inspiration inspire motivation passages-malibu passages-ventura self-help self-improvement	Chris Prentiss
7fd5f17	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.	addiction-cure addiction-treatment addictive-drugs alcohol-abuse alcohol-rehab chris-prentiss depression drug-abuse drug-rehab health holistic-healing passages-malibu passages-ventura	Chris Prentiss
ca718ad	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.	life life-and-living philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness	Chris Prentiss
ae9533f	When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.	chris-prentiss inspiration inspirational life passages-malibu passages-ventura perspective philosophy	Chris Prentiss
aa31634	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.	happiness life metaphysics philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness	Chris Prentiss
b18ead5	The way to heal your relationship is to look for the underlying conditions in yourself and in your partner that have caused your relationship to go off track and then to seek out the guidance you need to heal yourself. The Laws of Love will give you that guidance.	relationships the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
5aeb05c	Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.	life philosophy stress stress-management zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness	Chris Prentiss
4205ebb	If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.	inspiration life love relationships self-help the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
6ef74cc	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.	creative ideas inspiration life new-ideas read reading writing	Chris Prentiss
b2a9c9c	You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.	ideas inspiration life new-ideas quotes	Chris Prentiss
2b30b9d	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.	addiction-cure addiction-free addiction-treatment-center alcohol-addiction-treatment change change-the-world chris-prentiss curing-addiction drug-addiction-treatment freedom good-books happiness healing health holistic-health holistic-treatment inspiration inspire life non-12-step non12step passages-malibu passages-ventura philosophy recommended-reading renew self-help self-improvement sober sober-living sobriety treatment-program universe wisdom	Chris Prentiss
4e05711	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.	addiction-and-recovery addiction-treatment-center alcohol alcoholism holistic-treatment passages-malibu passages-ventura	Chris Prentiss
0633b56	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.	addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse alcohol-rehab chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse drug-rehab passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss recovery	Chris Prentiss
dca1b95	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.	addiction-and-recovery addiction-free chris-prentiss chris-prentiss-quotes guilt happiness joy life love pain passages-malibu passages-ventura peace philosophy philosophy-of-life wisdom	Chris Prentiss
17d0104	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.	chris-prentiss life non-12-step passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura quotes	Chris Prentiss
36e7e05	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.	depression happiness mindfulness philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness	Chris Prentiss
60c10bd	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 inspiration inspirational life life-purpose non-12-step-program passage-ventura passages-malibu perspective philosophy quotes	Chris Prentiss
a754030	The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into."	life metaphysics universe	Chris Prentiss
60d3c4d	The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.	energy inspiration life metaphysics quotes	Chris Prentiss
c260ac9	The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.	inspiration life relationships self-help the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
aab80f3	Once you look at your problems as "workout situations," they take on a whole new aspect."	inspiration life self-help the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
bcf1f56	The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.	chris-prentiss dependency passages-malibu self-help self-improvement	Chris Prentiss
9bce623	The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.	passages-malibu philosophy philosophy-of-life self-help self-improvement	Chris Prentiss
00cdb23	Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.	addiction-rehab addiction-treatment alcohol-rehab california-rehab chris-prentiss drug-rehab malibu-rehab non-12-step non12step passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura	Chris Prentiss
564a193	What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love.	relationships the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
92961b1	In the eyes, heart, and mind of the one you love and who you want to love you, you will become, in essence, a new person.	love relationships the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
1548d8a	We help our clients discover and correct the underlying conditions that are causing them to self-medicate, to seek relief in substances and addictive behavior.	relationships the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
e937e0c	You can easily see that if you are regularly nasty to your loved one, it won't be long before cause and effect sets in and undermines your relationship. The reverse is also true: if you are unceasingly caring and loving to your loved one and act with the Laws of Love in mind, you will be deeply loved in return and your relationship will thrive.	relationships the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
0bc4f84	What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.	relationships self-help the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
b3545ff	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.	addiction addiction-cure addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous challenge change chris-prentiss opportunity reading writing	Chris Prentiss
aeb9295	Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.	addiction-cure addiction-treatment chris-prentiss	Chris Prentiss
f27bc6c	In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the end of the first week, everyone in the room knows everyone's story. That goes on for three more weeks, and then most people go home with the same problems they brought with them when they arrived.	addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous chris-prentiss substance-abuse	Chris Prentiss
acc2ce3	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.	alcoholism chris-prentiss holistic-health passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss	Chris Prentiss
6b23c21	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.	addiction alcohol-rehab alcohol-treatment-center chris-prenitss depression drug-abuse drug-rehab drug-rehab-center non-12-step pax-prentiss substance-abuse	Chris Prentiss

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

Chris Prentiss

bf1403e

If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the d..

addiction-and-recovery alcohol-addiction alcohol-treatment-center alcoholism chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse ecstasy heroin passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss prescription-abuse prescription-drugs self-help substance-abuse

Chris Prentiss

5d9006e

The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol.

addiction-and-recovery alcohol-addiction alcohol-treatment-center alcoholism beer chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse ecstasy heroin passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss prescription-abuse prescription-drugs self-help substance-abuse wine

Chris Prentiss

27ac740

The world is actually a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well, mirroring your changes.

chris-prentiss life passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes

Chris Prentiss

80b7065

Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core of life or passionately sees the surface, the core and the surface are essentially the same, words making them seem different only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: from wonder into wonder existence opens.

Chris Prentiss

2e32bd6

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

Chris Prentiss

d7dcbf3

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 drug-war headaches healing holistic-treatment pain passages-malibu pax-prentiss rehab remedies root-of-addiction war-on-drugs

Chris Prentiss

3e7ed5c

Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the individual issues at the core of dependency are just that- completely individual.

addiction-help addiction-philosophy addiction-treatment alcoholism change change-the-world-change-life chris-prenitss healing-addiction holistic-therapy non-12-step non12step one-on-one-therapy passages-malibu passages-ventura philosophy

Chris Prentiss

59dd835

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

inspiration life passages-malibu passages-ventura positive-thinking stress

Chris Prentiss

eae2cd9

Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities."

chris-prentiss happiness inspiration life philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness

Chris Prentiss

fbcbd33

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.

chris-prentiss coincidences goals inspiration inspire motivation passages-malibu passages-ventura self-help self-improvement

Chris Prentiss

7fd5f17

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.

addiction-cure addiction-treatment addictive-drugs alcohol-abuse alcohol-rehab chris-prentiss depression drug-abuse drug-rehab health holistic-healing passages-malibu passages-ventura

Chris Prentiss

ca718ad

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.

life life-and-living philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness

Chris Prentiss

ae9533f

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

chris-prentiss inspiration inspirational life passages-malibu passages-ventura perspective philosophy

Chris Prentiss

aa31634

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.

happiness life metaphysics philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness

Chris Prentiss

b18ead5

The way to heal your relationship is to look for the underlying conditions in yourself and in your partner that have caused your relationship to go off track and then to seek out the guidance you need to heal yourself. The Laws of Love will give you that guidance.

relationships the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

5aeb05c

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

life philosophy stress stress-management zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness

Chris Prentiss

4205ebb

If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.

inspiration life love relationships self-help the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

6ef74cc

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.

creative ideas inspiration life new-ideas read reading writing

Chris Prentiss

b2a9c9c

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

ideas inspiration life new-ideas quotes

Chris Prentiss

2b30b9d

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.

addiction-cure addiction-free addiction-treatment-center alcohol-addiction-treatment change change-the-world chris-prentiss curing-addiction drug-addiction-treatment freedom good-books happiness healing health holistic-health holistic-treatment inspiration inspire life non-12-step non12step passages-malibu passages-ventura philosophy recommended-reading renew self-help self-improvement sober sober-living sobriety treatment-program universe wisdom

Chris Prentiss

4e05711

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.

addiction-and-recovery addiction-treatment-center alcohol alcoholism holistic-treatment passages-malibu passages-ventura

Chris Prentiss

0633b56

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.

addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse alcohol-rehab chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse drug-rehab passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss recovery

Chris Prentiss

dca1b95

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.

addiction-and-recovery addiction-free chris-prentiss chris-prentiss-quotes guilt happiness joy life love pain passages-malibu passages-ventura peace philosophy philosophy-of-life wisdom

Chris Prentiss

17d0104

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.

chris-prentiss life non-12-step passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura quotes

Chris Prentiss

36e7e05

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.

depression happiness mindfulness philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness

Chris Prentiss

60c10bd

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 inspiration inspirational life life-purpose non-12-step-program passage-ventura passages-malibu perspective philosophy quotes

Chris Prentiss

a754030

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

life metaphysics universe

Chris Prentiss

60d3c4d

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

energy inspiration life metaphysics quotes

Chris Prentiss

c260ac9

The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.

inspiration life relationships self-help the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

aab80f3

Once you look at your problems as "workout situations," they take on a whole new aspect."

inspiration life self-help the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

bcf1f56

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

chris-prentiss dependency passages-malibu self-help self-improvement

Chris Prentiss

9bce623

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

passages-malibu philosophy philosophy-of-life self-help self-improvement

Chris Prentiss

00cdb23

Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.

addiction-rehab addiction-treatment alcohol-rehab california-rehab chris-prentiss drug-rehab malibu-rehab non-12-step non12step passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura

Chris Prentiss

564a193

What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love.

relationships the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

92961b1

In the eyes, heart, and mind of the one you love and who you want to love you, you will become, in essence, a new person.

love relationships the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

1548d8a

We help our clients discover and correct the underlying conditions that are causing them to self-medicate, to seek relief in substances and addictive behavior.

relationships the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

e937e0c

You can easily see that if you are regularly nasty to your loved one, it won't be long before cause and effect sets in and undermines your relationship. The reverse is also true: if you are unceasingly caring and loving to your loved one and act with the Laws of Love in mind, you will be deeply loved in return and your relationship will thrive.

relationships the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

0bc4f84

What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.

relationships self-help the-laws-of-love

Chris Prentiss

b3545ff

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.

addiction addiction-cure addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous challenge change chris-prentiss opportunity reading writing

Chris Prentiss

aeb9295

Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.

addiction-cure addiction-treatment chris-prentiss

Chris Prentiss

f27bc6c

In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the end of the first week, everyone in the room knows everyone's story. That goes on for three more weeks, and then most people go home with the same problems they brought with them when they arrived.

addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous chris-prentiss substance-abuse

Chris Prentiss

acc2ce3

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.

alcoholism chris-prentiss holistic-health passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss

Chris Prentiss

6b23c21

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.

addiction alcohol-rehab alcohol-treatment-center chris-prenitss depression drug-abuse drug-rehab drug-rehab-center non-12-step pax-prentiss substance-abuse

Chris Prentiss