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

— Chris Prentiss

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

— Chris Prentiss

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.

— Chris Prentiss

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

— Chris Prentiss

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

— Chris Prentiss

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.

— Chris Prentiss

...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery.

— Chris Prentiss

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.

— Chris Prentiss

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

— 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