Chris Prentiss Quotes

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• The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

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  Mistake, Waiting, Perception

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

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  Desire, Emotion, Behavior

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.21, BookBaby

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

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  Happens

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

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  Circles, Differences, Quality

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.210, BookBaby

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• 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.

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  Believe, Reality, New Experiences

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.14, BookBaby

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• The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

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  Strong, Workout, Information

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.33, BookBaby

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

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  New Experiences, Way, Response

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.14, BookBaby

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

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  Stress, Anxiety, Brain

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.27, BookBaby

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• Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

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  Happiness, Response, Our Lives

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• Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

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  Communication, Events, Our Words

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.

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  Ocean, Loss, Rivers

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.243, BookBaby

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• The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

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  Goal, World, Moments

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.27, BookBaby

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• 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.

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  Believe, People, Luck

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.124, BookBaby

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• 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.

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  Simplicity, Mind, Enlightenment

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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

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  Waiting, Answers

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

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  Successful, Path, Great Success

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “The Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living”, p.81, BookBaby

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• Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.

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  Believe, People, Trying

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.22, BookBaby

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• You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

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  Letting Go, Past, Willing

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.40, BookBaby

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• What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

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  Mean, Events, Unhappiness

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.17, BookBaby

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Believe, People

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.11, BookBaby

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• Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

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  Stress, Events, Way

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.36, BookBaby

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• Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.

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  Simplicity, Embrace

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• You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

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  Quests, Want, What You Want

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.14, BookBaby

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

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  Happy, Knowing, Benefits

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.43, BookBaby

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• 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.

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  Past, Ideas, Benefits

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.40, BookBaby

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