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

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

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

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.

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

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.