Alan Cohen Quotes

The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.

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.

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

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

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

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.

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

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

Be a creator, not a reactor.

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

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

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

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

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

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

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

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

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.

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

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

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

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

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.

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

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

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

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

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

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

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

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

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

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.

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

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

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

How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?

The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.

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.

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

Dance on the edge of mystery.

Anger is a call for awareness.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

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

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.

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.