Passages Malibu Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.

Pax Prentiss

#3. 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

#4. I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed?

Pax Prentiss

#5. I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!

Pax Prentiss

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

Chris Prentiss

#7. 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

#8. It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Samuel Johnson

#9. 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

#10. 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.

Chris Prentiss

#11. Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

Bill Hicks

#12. 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

#13. It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

Pax Prentiss

#14. In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don't think I like reality very much. Principally, I don't understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.

Shirley Jackson

#15. 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

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

Chris Prentiss

#17. 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

#18. 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.

Chris Prentiss

#19. 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

#20. If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return.

Chris Prentiss

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

Chris Prentiss

#22. Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

Chris Prentiss

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

Chris Prentiss

#24. [ ... ]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?

Philip Yancey

#25. Love is about YOU and ME, not about THEM.

Rangga Wirianto Putra

#26. For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Brene Brown

#27. If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.

Chris Prentiss

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

Chris Prentiss

#29. Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#30. You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.

Chris Prentiss

#31. 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.

Chris Prentiss

#32. 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

#33. You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

Chris Prentiss