Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. - Alan Cohen
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them. - Alan Cohen
You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release. - Alan Cohen
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. - Alan Cohen
The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go. - Alan Cohen
Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t. - Alan Cohen
The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most. - Alan Cohen
Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons. - Alan Cohen
People who pressure you usually deserve a no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a yes". - Alan Cohen
Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience. - Alan Cohen
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are. - Alan Cohen
Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go. - Alan Cohen
Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own. - Alan Cohen
Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise. - Alan Cohen
Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good. - Alan Cohen
This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue. - Alan Cohen
Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you. - Alan Cohen
Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear. - Alan Cohen
Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable. - Alan Cohen
All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love. - Alan Cohen
To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place. - Alan Cohen
Don’t wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world. - Alan Cohen
Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one. - 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
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you. - Alan Cohen
Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation. - Alan Cohen
Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not. - Alan Cohen
It’s not more time you need. It’s more quality use of the time you already have. - Alan Cohen
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. - Alan Cohen
Do not confuse humility with humiliation. - Alan Cohen
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt. - Alan Cohen
Quit making believe you don’t know.You do know. Act on it. - Alan Cohen
Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself. - Alan Cohen
Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency. - Alan Cohen
Forgiveness doesn’t make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong. - Alan Cohen
Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice. - Alan Cohen
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought. - Alan Cohen
Don’t go to pieces. Go to peace. - Alan Cohen