Quotes from Alan Cohen

Honesty: When your outer expression matches your inner belief. Truth: When your inner belief matches reality.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

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

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

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

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

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

True champions are team players.

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.