Alan Cohen Quotes

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

We accept the love we think we deserve. please help me to recognize the truth about myself,no matter how beautiful it is.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.

You weren't born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you'll have everything you want.

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

You are doing better than you think you are.

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.