Alan Cohen Quotes

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

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

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

Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

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

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

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

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

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

What do you think is there that you cannot find here?

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

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

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

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

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

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

Less rules, more intuition.

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

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

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

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

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

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

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

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

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

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

No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today Have but one purpose; to be given Christ To use to bless the world with miracles. - W, LESSON 353

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

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

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

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

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.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

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

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.

Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.

Experiment to discover how little you need.

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

When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.

Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.

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

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.

Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world?

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

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

Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

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

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

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

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

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

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

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

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

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

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

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.

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

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

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

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

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

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

The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be.
~

Dance on the edge of mystery.

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

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

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

You don't need to get anyone else to agree with your truth.
You just need to live it.

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

Anger is a call for awareness.

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

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

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

Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered; it is accepting them.

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

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

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