Authenticity Quote by Alan Cohen Download Open image “The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.” — Alan Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authenticity Buddhism Creativity Enlightenment Imitation
Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Authenticity is the beginning of spirituality, which is why only a few can afford to be spiritual.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Authenticity is an “owning” of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable.” — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.” — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash.… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.” — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
'How can I be more like you?' she asked the guru. 'The best way to be more like me is to be more like… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you.… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10” — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.” — Melanie Hooyenga Copy Share Image
I think people can read authenticity and they know when you're involved and when you're just slapping your name on something. — La La Anthony Copy Share Image
“I strive for authenticity even though it brings with it vulnerability and the inevitable judgment of others.” — L.R.W. Lee Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.” — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
What I love about Nivea is they're all about authenticity. The brand isn't pretending to be anything it isn't. — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
