Quotes by Alan Cohen

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

People who pressure you usually deserve a “no. People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

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

When you reframe problems as projects or opportunities, they will cease to bother you and begin to stimulate you.

Experiment to discover how little you need.

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~

Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.

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.

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