Quotes from Alan Cohen

No response is a response.

Take the smallest step into a new room, and you will gain entrée to vast worlds you could not see when you clung to the familiar. Acknowledge who you are and how you want to live, and the doors to your destiny will swing open before you.

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

La humildad es una virtud. La humillación, no. Ser humilde significa permitir que Dios aporte más vida al mundo a través de ti, en vez de ser un peón en la búsqueda de sangre del ego. Dios promueve tu bienestar y hace todo lo posible para promoverlo.

Forgiveness doesn't make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.

La amenaza psicológica es mucho más peligrosa que la física porque te arrastra al lodo de la angustia, que nada tiene que ver con lo que está sucediendo en el momento.

You can take the person out of heaven, but you can't take the heaven out of the person.

The answer is simpler than you think.

A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it.

I live in the world I choose with my thoughts.

If you want your destiny to be greater than your history, give no credence to history and all credence to possibility.

Then I realize that even while I was asleep at the wheel of my life, a Higher Power was guiding and caring for me.

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

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

You cannot evaluate an insane belief system from within it.

When something sucks, it saps your energy and undermines the quality of your life. It makes you feel smaller and wish you hadn't participated.

Only the fearful mind goes to catastrophic fantasies.

This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.

What do you think is there that you cannot find here?

No hay ningún mundo aparte de lo que deseas, y en eso radica, en última instancia, tu liberación. Cambia de mentalidad con respecto a lo que quieres ver, y el mundo cambiará a su vez.

It takes a lot less work to feel good than it does to feel bad.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

When love and fear meet, only love remains.

When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it.