Alan Cohen's Quotes

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

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

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.

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

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Our history is not our destiny.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

God is a frequency. Stay tuned.

You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

You are doing better than you think you are.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.