We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.