Alan Cohen Quotes

Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

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

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

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.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

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

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

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

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

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.

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

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere.

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

True champions are team players.

It's always something.” The spirit says, “It's never anything.

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

People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.

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

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

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.

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.

Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

Time reveals character.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

Forgiveness doesn’t make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.

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

Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.

All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.

Quit making believe you don’t know.You do know. Act on it.

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

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

People who pressure you usually deserve a “no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes".

Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t.