Alan Cohen Quotes - Page 10

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

You are doing better than you think you are.

True champions are team players.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.

In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Anger is a call for awareness.

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?

Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.