Quotes from Alan Cohen

Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.

You cannot afford to allow your happiness to depend on any external situation. You must find the source of your happiness within you. Then nothing in the outside world will be able to remove your peace.

Therefore the wise are guided by what they feel and not by what they see, Letting go of that and choosing this. —12

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf.

To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.

Probe, challenge, and grow beyond any belief system that does not acknowledge you as already divine and Grace as already present. Don't stop until everything you seek is already given.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. —ALBERT SCHWEITZER

You will not achieve work/life balance as long as you believe there is a difference between the two. When you find life in your work and work with your life, you will have only life.

Control what you can, but flow with what you can't.

Nothing in the world is permanent, including hard times. Hang in there, be kind to yourself, stay connected to your spiritual source, and you will emerge with unexpected gifts. That's a promise.

It takes courage to leave behind the world you have been taught is so important, and instead claim what is right for you. Ultimately we must, as Walt Whitman urged, "Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

You are here to thrive as a soul. It will be a great day when we train children to pass SQ—spiritual quotient—tests. Then we will be teaching genuine intelligence that will advance humanity in the most important way.

When you live from your divine nature, suffering will fall away. You will no longer see life as a jungle or live in a realm where survival is at stake. You don't deserve to suffer. No one does.

THE MYTH: Being a misfit is a defect you must correct. THE REALITY: Your nonconformity is your pathway to fulfillment.

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.

You are good not for what you do, but for who you are. When you recognize your deep inherent value, you make wise decisions that lead to greater good for you and everyone involved. Lao Tse would say, "Trust what you are, and all that you do will bless the world.

Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

si esperas librarte del miedo hay algunas cosas que debes comprender, y comprender plenamente. La mente es muy poderosa y jamás pierde su fuerza creativa. Nunca duerme. Está creando continuamente. Es difícil reconocer la oleada de poder que resulta de la combinación de pensamiento y creencia, la cual puede literalmente mover montañas […] No hay pensamientos fútiles. Todo pensamiento produce forma en algún nivel.

The person you are is far greater than the person you think you are.

Time reveals character.

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it.

Acting as if your life is good is closer to the truth than acting as if it is not.

Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of "not it" amplifies your intention to find "it," and you surely will.