Quotes from Alan Cohen

Simplicity is not the opposite of wealth. It is the door to the riches you already own

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

Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.

The best way to get what you want is to be what you are.

THE MYTH: Money is the indicator of wealth. THE REALITY: Quality of life is the real indicator of wealth.

You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.

If you simply love yourself, just as you are, right where you are, you will become an unstoppable force for healing and transformation.

It's not more time you need. It's more quality use of the time you already have.

Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Mediocrity does not befit your true magnitude.

The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.

When a step is aligned with your well-being and that of everyone involved, universal intelligence will make it happen. The Tao has your back.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —HOWARD THURMAN

Asking for help is an affirmation that you believe in yourself, you recognize an answer is available, and you are open to receive it.

The spiritual path is not a learning curve. It is a refresher course. You were born knowing. Then you were educated out of knowing. Now you need to be reeducated into remembering. The journey of enlightenment is not one of doing. It is of undoing. You must undo the debilitating illusions that have been laid over your majestic self. The goal of living is to become what you already are.

The richest freedom is the power to choose inner peace.

newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash. While we may be tempted to look outside ourselves for advice, we are all quite brilliant and know a lot more about our path and destiny than we recognize.

Give yourself space to be what you are. Give others space to be what they are. Then everything will make itself clear.

You are not here to work. You are here to awaken.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information, but unlearning old limits.

Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.

The human psyche is a strange creation. We believe that the known is always preferable to the unknown, even if the known sucks.