Quotes from Alan Cohen

Our history is not our destiny.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone

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

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

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

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

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

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

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

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

People who pressure you usually deserve a "no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a "yes".

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

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.

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

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.