It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
– Alan Cohen
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone.
– 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
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
– Alan Cohen
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
– Alan Cohen
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
– Alan Cohen
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t.
– Alan Cohen
Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.
– Alan Cohen
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
– Alan Cohen
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
– Alan Cohen
Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
– Alan Cohen
Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
– Alan Cohen
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
– Alan Cohen
Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.
– Alan Cohen
When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.
– Alan Cohen