Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

“The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.”

— Alan Cohen

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on…

— 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,…

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— 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…

— 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

Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus…

— Alan Cohen

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming…

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

— Alan Cohen

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

— 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 spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.

— Alan Cohen

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.

— Alan Cohen

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

— Alan Cohen

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen