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Quotes from Alan Cohen

God has denied you nothing. Only you can deny yourself.
~ Alan Cohen
Si te centras en los momentos dolorosos, creas un pasado doloroso que arrastras al presente. Cuando te centras en los momentos felices, creas un pasado feliz y experimentas paz en el presente.
~ Alan Cohen
our history is not our destiny. At any moment we are free to make new choices and create a new destiny.
~ Alan Cohen
Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.
~ Alan Cohen
Cuántas veces habré oído: «Hace tiempo que tengo el libro, he leído algunas partes, pero no consigo entenderlo. Empecé a ejecutar las lecciones del Libro de ejercicios, pero lo dejé. Sé que el Curso es muy poderoso y que podría cambiar mi vida, pero me costaba mucho ponerlo en práctica.
~ Alan Cohen
Se dice que Mark Twain dijo: «La comparación es la muerte de la alegría».
~ Alan Cohen
Do it because you would, not because you should.
~ Alan Cohen
Cualquier salvador que proyectes fuera de ti está negando a Dios dentro de ti. Éste es el sentido de la máxima budista: «Si encuentras a Buda por el camino, mátale». Buda no es una persona. Buda, como Cristo, es un estado de conciencia, es el reconocimiento de la divinidad que hay dentro y fuera de ti.
~ Alan Cohen
Life is God's novel. Let him write it. — ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
~ Alan Cohen
our first responsibility is to remove the weeds from our own garden. We must take the high road ourselves before exhorting others to do so.
~ Alan Cohen
Virtue loses its majesty when it morphs to dogma.
~ Alan Cohen
Every journey you take leads you back to yourself.
~ Alan Cohen
Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.
~ Alan Cohen
Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.
~ Alan Cohen
There are seven reasons people go to work: (1) Money; (2) Passionate self-expression; (3) Rewarding relationships; (4) Service to improve others' lives; (5) Egoic achievement, competitive victory, or status; (6) Fear, guilt, obligation, rote habit, or debt to tradition; and (7) Avoidance of boredom or escape from a more unpleasant situation. We might boil this list down to two basic motivations: fear-based lack and joy-based expression.
~ Alan Cohen
En la eternidad las demoras no importan, pero en el tiempo son ciertamente trágicas». (T-5.VI.1:3).
~ Alan Cohen
Activities are valuable only if they bring us closer to peace. Relationships are healthy only as much as they reflect real love.
~ Alan Cohen
All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing.
~ Alan Cohen
Your thoughts do not create reality. They either recognize reality or they do not.
~ Alan Cohen
If you are separated from someone, or they turn their back on you, or someone has passed on, don't despair. You can connect with them in spirit.
~ Alan Cohen
La respuesta al terrorismo, personal y global, se encuentra en su propio lugar de origen: el corazón asustado. El terrorismo terminará cuando nos neguemos a vivir aterrorizados.
~ Alan Cohen
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
~ Alan Cohen
La fe es el pájaro que siente la luz y canta cuando todavía no ha amanecido».
~ Alan Cohen
The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.
~ Alan Cohen