Top 261 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Cohen - Page 4

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

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

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

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.

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

If you have good wealth mentality.... you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again. If you have a lack mentality, no matter how much you receive or what financial opportunities come your way, wealth will evade you or, if it comes, it won't last.

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

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

Dance on the edge of mystery.

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

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

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

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

Anger is a call for awareness.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

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

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

If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?

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

I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

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

The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.

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

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