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Quotes About Purpose

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.
~ Alan Cohen
ACIM states that you will be appalled when you realize what you are truly here for (T-17.V.5:6). You thought you were here to get stuff, prove yourself, and find people to love you. Instead you are here get peace, be yourself, and find people to love. You thought you were here to fix the world. Instead you are here to appreciate what is before you and see the world through new eyes.
~ Alan Cohen
The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.
~ Alan Cohen
Man's [or woman's] rejection is God's protection.
~ Alan Cohen
Be grateful, then, that you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, or fed up with what is not feeding you. Toleration of dysfunction only keeps it in force. Refuse to put up with what is not working, and you will find your way to your perfect place in the Great Design.
~ Alan Cohen
THE REALITY: You are not getting what you want because your intentions are mixed, unclear, or contrary to what you say you want. When you clarify your intentions, your desired results will follow.
~ Alan Cohen
The best way to get what you want is to be what you are.
~ Alan Cohen
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
~ Alan Cohen
You are not here to work. You are here to awaken.
~ Alan Cohen
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.
~ Alan Cohen
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.
~ Alan Cohen
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.
~ Alan Cohen
self-mastery is the goal of life, and controlling, bullying, or needing to fix others is a distraction from our true purpose.
~ Alan Cohen
If God puts yearning in your heart, that same God will give you the guidance and means to fulfill it.
~ Alan Cohen
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused
~ Alan Cohen
All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill.
~ Alan Cohen
The ego's use of the body is to make it a god, while the soul's use of the body is for it to serve God.
~ Alan Cohen
La muerte es la forma que tiene el universo de limpiar lo que ya ha cumplido con su propósito, para dejar vía libre al siguiente acto de propósito.
~ Alan Cohen
We are all smart enough to do what we value doing. We find the time, money, and means to achieve what is important to us. We are not motivated to do the things that other people tell us we should do or we should want to do.
~ Alan Cohen
What you love to do the most is the shortest distance between where you are now and your dreams.
~ Alan Cohen
What you condemn you continue. Focus on where you want to go rather than what you want to get away from.
~ Alan Cohen
Life is not a task. It's a privilege.
~ Alan Cohen
When your intention is clear, so is the way.
~ Alan Cohen
Cuando tus acciones están en armonía con tu fe, eres fiel a ti mismo y alcanzas tu meta.
~ Alan Cohen