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

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

How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.

When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

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

choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.