Top 261 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Cohen - Page 3

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

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

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.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

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

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

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

Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

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

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.

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

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live. When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

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

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

Less rules, more intuition.

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

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

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

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