Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“An authentic life does not require anyone else’s approval for your creative choices.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not.” ~ Alan Cohen

“All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.” ~ Alan Cohen

“How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“No matter what has happened, let today be new.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Love does not require you to make believe you are something you are not.” ~ Alan Cohen

“I claim my heart’s desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Any problem you recognize represents but a tiny blip on the radar screen of your well-being. Even while you are experiencing a difficulty, homeostasis is working on your behalf to return you to perfect balance. Your role is simply to relax and allow nature to take its healing course.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Any attempt to improve on God’s creation will distance you from God’s creation.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.” ~ Alan Cohen

“When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“God is a frequency. Stay tuned.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.” ~ Alan Cohen

“When you live from your divine nature, suffering will fall away. You will no longer see life as a jungle or live in a realm where survival is at stake. You don’t deserve to suffer. No one does.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You weren’t born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you’ll have everything you want.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The purpose of prayer is not to change God’s mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The Key to a healthy “no” is to remember the “yes” that the “no” is making space for.” ~ Alan Cohen

“There is nothing missing.” ~ Alan Cohen

“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.” ~ Alan Cohen

“What happens to you happens from you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Somehow it all works out.” ~ Alan Cohen

“To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.” ~ Alan Cohen

“There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Our history is not our destiny.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily – more easily – use it to formulate answers.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.” ~ Alan Cohen

“For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.” ~ Alan Cohen

“It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.” ~ Alan Cohen

“People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.” ~ Alan Cohen

“It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Everyone is continuously finding evidence to prove what they want to believe.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Don’t talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Less rules, more intuition.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The words “genius” and “genuine” derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The person you are is far greater than the person you think you are.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Dance on the edge of mystery.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.” ~ Alan Cohen

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you have ever followed a rainbow to its end, it leads you to the ground on which you are standing.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.” ~ Alan Cohen

“What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?” ~ Alan Cohen

“Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Don’t use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Forget what you’ve been taught so you can remember what you know.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Don’t wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world.” ~ Alan Cohen

“We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you know something is true, you don’t need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.” ~ Alan Cohen

“When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“True champions are team players.” ~ Alan Cohen

“While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.” ~ Alan Cohen

“All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.” ~ Alan Cohen

“One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The point of life is not to be married or single – it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose – it’s what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You have the power to take away someone’s happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Live your spirit’s dreams, not your mind’s.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?” ~ Alan Cohen

“Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You’re never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You’ll rise above every circumstance because you’re greater than any circumstance.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Be a creator, not a reactor.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.” ~ Alan Cohen

“To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.” ~ Alan Cohen

“So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.” ~ Alan Cohen

“When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.” ~ Alan Cohen

“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” ~ Alan Cohen

“THE REALITY: You are not getting what you want because your intentions are mixed, unclear, or contrary to what you say you want. When you clarify your intentions, your desired results will follow.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.” ~ Alan Cohen

“True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.” ~ Alan Cohen

“We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.” ~ Alan Cohen

“No one can bother you unless you agree with them.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You are doing better than you think you are.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Great masters merit emulation, not worship.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Completion is an attitude, not an event.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“Inner peace: Don’t leave home without it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Affirmations are more powerful than requests, for they remind you that you already have what you seek.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Be kind to everyone, and don’t leave yourself out of the equation.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Don’t try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.” ~ Alan Cohen

“When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.” ~ Alan Cohen

“There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.” ~ Alan Cohen

“A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.” ~ Alan Cohen

“All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Quit planning your dream and start living it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The images we impress upon our mind, especially when accompanied by emotion, yield the same experience whether they are true or fictional.” ~ Alan Cohen

“When you express your true delight, you make the world a better place.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Life’s gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.” ~ Alan Cohen

“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.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Self-worth makes you extremely attractive.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.” ~ Alan Cohen

“People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

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

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

“The people who matter will recognize who you are.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.” ~ Alan Cohen

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

“The love affair you seek is with yourself.” ~ Alan Cohen

“What you go through is nothing compared to who you are.” ~ Alan Cohen

“You won’t be happy anywhere until you’re happy somewhere.” ~ Alan Cohen

“If you sense there must be more, there is more.” ~ Alan Cohen

“We are abundant in whatever we pay attention to. The first step to upgrading your abundance is to upgrade what you are paying attention to.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Anger is a call for awareness.” ~ Alan Cohen

“The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Giving in order to get is not giving.” ~ Alan Cohen