We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone. Alcoholics just have their powerlessness visible for all to see. The rest of us disguise it in different ways, and overcompensate for our more hidden and subtle addictions and attachments, especially our addiction to our way of thinking.

If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.

Good religion keeps God free for people and keeps people free for God. You cannot improve on that.

Some form of alternative consciousness is the only freedom from these addictions and from cultural lies. If the universal addiction is to our own

God seems ready and willing to wait for, and to empower, free will and a free "yes." Love only happens in the realm of freedom.

We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone.

Stinking thinking' is the universal addiction." This is one of the most stunning, succinct, and profound sentences I've ever read. And this is indeed a book for anyone and everyone who cannot stop creating trances and numbness via alcohol, drugs, sex, workaholism, or toxic, obsessive thinking.

The trouble is that most Christians pushed this great liberation off into the next world, and many Twelve Steppers settled for mere sobriety from a substance instead of a real transformation of the self. We have all been the losers, as a result—waiting around for "enlightenment at gunpoint" (death) instead of enjoying God's banquet much earlier in life.

we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Galatians 5:18 asks, "Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?" (MSG).

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.