Alan Cohen Quotes

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.

You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.

The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.

Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

Anger is a call for awareness.

Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

To be a miracle worker you do not have to get a doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a particular food, or be able to meditate for long hours. All you need to do is to begin to see beauty in your life and those around you.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.

The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door.

Be a creator, not a reactor.

Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.