If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

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.

The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.