Alan Cohen Quotes

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

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

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

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

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

Less rules, more intuition.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

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

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

Don't talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

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

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

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

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

Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.

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

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

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

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

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

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

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

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

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

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

What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.

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

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

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?

Take care what words you speak that follow “I am.” In so speaking you create your life.

A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

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

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

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

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

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.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

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

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.