Alan Cohen

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

Growth • Improvement

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Forgiveness • Gratitude • Memories

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Growth • Improvement • Motivational

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.

Change • Courage • Security

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone.

Authenticity • Improvement • Priorities

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Discovery • Meditation • Spirituality

Take care what words you speak that follow 'I am'. In so speaking you create your life.

Improvement • Mindfulness • Responsibility

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

Improvement • Motivational

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

Communication • Relationships

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

Acceptance • Freedom

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

Love • Pain

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Destiny • Growth • Improvement

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

Improvement • Mindfulness • Perception

Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.

Communication • Simplicity

Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.

Motivational • Philosophy

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Growth • Improvement • Movement

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold.

Change • Improvement • Motivational

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Priorities • Productivity • Time

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.

Beliefs • Faith • Improvement

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Contentment • Desire • Gratitude