Alan Cohen Quotes

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

Live your spirit's dreams, not your mind's.

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.

Less rules, more intuition.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.

Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. 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.

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

What you go through is nothing compared to who you are.

I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.