Alan Cohen is a renowned author and motivational speaker whose words have inspired countless individuals on their journey to personal growth and spiritual enlightenment. Known for his profound yet simple insights, Alan Cohen has a unique ability to distill complex ideas into accessible wisdom that resonates with people from all walks of life. Whether you’re seeking encouragement, clarity, or a fresh perspective on life, Alan Cohen quotes offer timeless guidance that can help you navigate the challenges of everyday living.
In this blog, we’ll explore some of the best Alan Cohen quotes and discover how they can inspire positive change in your life.
Alan Cohen Quotes
- Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
2. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.
3. Dance on the edge of mystery.
4. A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.
5. Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
6. Don’t talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.
7. Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.
8. 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.
9. You weren’t born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you’ll have everything you want.
10. How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?
11. Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.
12. The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.
13. What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.
14. You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.
15. Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.
16. THE REALITY: You are not getting what you want because your intentions are mixed, unclear, or contrary to what you say you want. When you clarify your intentions, your desired results will follow.
17. Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t.
18. Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.
19. If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.
20. Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.
21. Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.
22. As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.
23. The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.
24. If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.
25. Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.
26. Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
27. Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.
28. When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.
29. Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.
30. Forced change is not true change.
31. You cannot afford to allow your happiness to depend on any external situation. You must find the source of your happiness within you. Then nothing in the outside world will be able to remove your peace.
32. Mediocrity does not befit your true magnitude.
33. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
34. 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.
35. Quit planning your dream and start living it.
36. It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
37. Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
38. Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.
39. The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.
40. Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
41. Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.
42. If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.
43. The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
44. Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.
45. The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.
46. Everyone is continuously finding evidence to prove what they want to believe.
47. The point of life is not to be married or single – it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose – it’s what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.
48. No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.
49. Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.
50. The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.
51. You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.
52. 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.
53. Don’t wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world.
54. Give yourself space to be what you are. Give others space to be what they are. Then everything will make itself clear.
55. You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.
56. Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.
57. 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.
58. Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.
59. Why live in a soap opera when you can star in a great love story?
60. Independent souls find aliveness more attractive than social approval.
61. Acting as if your life is good is closer to the truth than acting as if it is not.
62. Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.
63. To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
64. You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
65. Be kind to everyone, and don’t leave yourself out of the equation.
66. Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
67. If you sense there must be more, there is more.
68. Take care what words you speak that follow “I am.” In so speaking you create your life.
69. Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.
70. You have the power to take away someone’s happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
71. Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.
72. The words “genius” and “genuine” derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.
73. As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.
74. To be a miracle worker you do not have to get a doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a particular food, or be able to meditate for long hours. All you need to do is to begin to see beauty in your life and those around you.
75. The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.
76. What you go through is nothing compared to who you are.
77. Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.
78. The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.
79. One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.
80. Anger is a call for awareness.
81. When you are excited about reaching a goal, you are connected to the source of life. Many people judge or dismiss passion as being self-indulgent, but authentic passion moves us to fulfill our soul’s mission, attract abundance and success, and serve humanity.
82. Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.
83. I’ve been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.
84. Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
85. How do I contribute to end the suffering of humanity?” is the most important question you will ever ask. The answer to that question begins with your answer to the question, “How do I end my own suffering?” If you can find your own way out of pain, you will know how to help other people out of their pain. Until then your efforts are hollow.
86. The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.
87. Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.
88. Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.
89. Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
90. Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
91. Life’s gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.
92. I claim my heart’s desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.
93. The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.
94. An authentic life does not require anyone else’s approval for your creative choices.
95. 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.
96. Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.
97. A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.
98. Completion is an attitude, not an event.
99. All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill.
100. Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.
101. Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.
102. Time reveals character.
103. Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.
104. 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.
105. The future you expect is a projection of your beliefs about the past. The future will be like the past only if you keep thinking the same thoughts.
106. If you have ever followed a rainbow to its end, it leads you to the ground on which you are standing.
107. Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.
108. If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.
109. Simplicity is not the opposite of wealth. It is the door to the riches you already own.
110. When a relationship has served its purpose, there is no use to try to hang onto it.
111. All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.
112. Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
113. Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.
114. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
115. The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.
116. The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
117. Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.
118. Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.
119. The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.
120. 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.
121. You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.
122. The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door.
123. You change the past when you change the way you see it.
124. The richest freedom is the power to choose inner peace.
125. Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?
126. Affirmations are more powerful than requests, for they remind you that you already have what you seek.
127. All disease is a denial of love, and all denial of love is fear.
128. Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.
129. Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.
130. Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
131. People who need to be right do so because they fundamentally feel wrong.
132. Experiment to discover how little you need.
133. If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
134. Be a creator, not a reactor.
135. Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.
136. Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.
137. The people who matter will recognize who you are.
138. Somehow it all works out.
139. Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.
140. No matter what has happened, let today be new.
141. The images we impress upon our mind, especially when accompanied by emotion, yield the same experience whether they are true or fictional.
142. When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.
143. The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.
144. Asking for help is an affirmation that you believe in yourself, you recognize an answer is available, and you are open to receive it.
145. Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.
146. Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.
147. Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.
148. For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.
149. Any attempt to improve on God’s creation will distance you from God’s creation.
150. Sometimes you can change the environment. Always you can change your mind. If you can change your environment from a sense of positive vision, you will succeed. Remember to work toward what you want rather than against what you resist.
151. Be sure you don’t lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.
152. The purpose of prayer is not to change God’s mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.
153. Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
154. Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
155. Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.
156. Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
157. The love affair you seek is with yourself.
158. You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
159. Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.
160. When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.
161. 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.
162. You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.
163. Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
164. You cannot control the behavior of others, and you cannot dictate the choices they make. But you have total control over which aspects of them you are selecting to magnify in your experience. This is where your true authority lives. “My Father gives all power unto me.
165. Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.
166. 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.
167. Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world?
168. If you can’t be with the one you love, be the one you love.
169. The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
170. God is a frequency. Stay tuned.
171. Inner peace: Don’t leave home without it.
172. Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
173. Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.
174. The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.
175. Don’t try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
176. The person you are is far greater than the person you think you are.
177. Live your spirit’s dreams, not your mind’s.
178. Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t.
179. No one can bother you unless you agree with them.
180. Giving in order to get is not giving.
181. You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
182. Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not.
183. Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf.
184. The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.
185. In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.
186. Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
187. The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.
188. You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.
189. You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
190. Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.
191. Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.
192. Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.
193. You won’t be happy anywhere until you’re happy somewhere.
194. People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.
195. The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
196. Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.
197. You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.
198. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
199. When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.
200. When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.
201. When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
202. We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.
203. What happens to you happens from you.
204. When you live from your divine nature, suffering will fall away. You will no longer see life as a jungle or live in a realm where survival is at stake. You don’t deserve to suffer. No one does.
205. Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us – it is something we do.
206. Don’t use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
207. Be grateful, then, that you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, or fed up with what is not feeding you. Toleration of dysfunction only keeps it in force. Refuse to put up with what is not working, and you will find your way to your perfect place in the Great Design.
208. There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
209. Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.
210. You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.
211. Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
212. Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.
213. We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
214. One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.
215. Self-worth makes you extremely attractive.
216. Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.
217. All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.
218. Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You’re never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You’ll rise above every circumstance because you’re greater than any circumstance.
219. It’s not more time you need. It’s more quality use of the time you already have.
220. Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
221. It takes courage to leave behind the world you have been taught is so important, and instead claim what is right for you. Ultimately we must, as Walt Whitman urged, “Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
222. There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
223. Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.
224. True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
225. The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
226. We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.
227. We are abundant in whatever we pay attention to. The first step to upgrading your abundance is to upgrade what you are paying attention to.
228. Don’t apologize for your uniqueness. Claim it as your genius.
229. The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
230. The spiritual path is not a learning curve. It is a refresher course. You were born knowing. Then you were educated out of knowing. Now you need to be reeducated into remembering. The journey of enlightenment is not one of doing. It is of undoing. You must undo the debilitating illusions that have been laid over your majestic self. The goal of living is to become what you already are.
231. Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.
232. You are here to thrive as a soul. It will be a great day when we train children to pass SQ – spiritual quotient – tests. Then we will be teaching genuine intelligence that will advance humanity in the most important way.
233. If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
234. True champions are team players.
235. Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.
236. 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.
237. People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.
238. The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
239. Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
240. The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.
241. If you know something is true, you don’t need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.
242. Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.
243. Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.”
244. If God puts yearning in your heart, that same God will give you the guidance and means to fulfill it.
245. 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.
246. If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it.
247. It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
248. The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.
249. Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.
250. When you express your true delight, you make the world a better place.
251. Nothing in the world is permanent, including hard times. Hang in there, be kind to yourself, stay connected to your spiritual source, and you will emerge with unexpected gifts. That’s a promise.
252. Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily – more easily – use it to formulate answers.
253. The Key to a healthy “no” is to remember the “yes” that the “no” is making space for.
254. Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
255. To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
256. The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.
257. Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.
258. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.
259. You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.
260. There is nothing missing.
261. The human psyche is a strange creation. We believe that the known is always preferable to the unknown, even if the known sucks.
262. Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.
263. The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.
264. You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.
265. To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
266. You are good not for what you do, but for who you are. When you recognize your deep inherent value, you make wise decisions that lead to greater good for you and everyone involved. Lao Tse would say, “Trust what you are, and all that you do will bless the world.
267. Temporary discomfort pales in the face of long-term awakening.
268. You are doing better than you think you are.
269. Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
270. After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.
271. All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.
272. What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.
273. You are not here to work. You are here to awaken.
274. So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.
275. You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.
276. You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
277. Probe, challenge, and grow beyond any belief system that does not acknowledge you as already divine and Grace as already present. Don’t stop until everything you seek is already given.
278. People find money for the things they value. They do not find money for things they don’t value. It’s as simple as that. All else is excuse, distraction, complication, and smoke and mirrors.
279. When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.
280. Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.
281. If you simply love yourself, just as you are, right where you are, you will become an unstoppable force for healing and transformation.
282. To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.
283. Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
284. Forget what you’ve been taught so you can remember what you know.
285. Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.
286. Love does not require you to make believe you are something you are not.
287. Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead.
288. The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
289. Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
290. Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of “not it” amplifies your intention to find “it,” and you surely will.
291. Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.
292. We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.
293. If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.
294. The Tao, which is the Force, is fully present, alive, and unassailable by the illusions that cloud our vision as we plod through a world of shadows and distortions.
295. Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.
296. When a step is aligned with your well-being and that of everyone involved, universal intelligence will make it happen. The Tao has your back.
297. Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.
298. Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.
299. Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
300. Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.
301. Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.
302. Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
303. Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.
304. If you have to have it, it’s ego. If you have to not have it, it’s ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don’t.
305. Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
306. While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.
307. Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.
308. If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
309. What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
310. Our history is not our destiny.
311. Everything that happens ultimately serves us. An experience might not appear to be perfect according to the ego’s plan, but it may be supremely perfect according to Spirit’s plan.
312. Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.
313. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.
314. Less rules, more intuition.
315. What was, was. What is, is. Be true to what is, rather than clinging to an old form. Then you will create new meaningful relationships that match who you are and what you want.
316. It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
317. Any problem you recognize represents but a tiny blip on the radar screen of your well-being. Even while you are experiencing a difficulty, homeostasis is working on your behalf to return you to perfect balance. Your role is simply to relax and allow nature to take its healing course.
318. I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
319. To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.
320. If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
321. The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
322. To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.
323. You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.
324. You should look within for your answers. Your life is not determined by the stars. It is determined by your state of mind and the choices you make. Regardless of how the stars are configured, you are in charge of your journey. Make healthy choices, and even if adversity comes, the Tao will show you how to use it for your benefit.
