Top 300 Alan Cohen Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

252. “Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.”

— Alan Cohen

253. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

254. “Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.”

— Alan Cohen

255. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

256. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

257. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

258. “You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.”

— Alan Cohen

259. “If you have ever followed a rainbow to its end, it leads you to the ground on which you are standing.”

— Alan Cohen

260. “Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.”

— Alan Cohen

261. “To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.”

— Alan Cohen

262. “Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.”

— Alan Cohen

263. “Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.”

— Alan Cohen

264. “There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.”

— Alan Cohen

265. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

267. “You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

269. “If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.”

— Alan Cohen

270. “Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.”

— Alan Cohen

271. “Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.”

— Alan Cohen

272. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

273. “Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.”

— Alan Cohen

274. “Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

276. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

277. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

278. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

279. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

280. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

282. “The Key to a healthy “no” is to remember the “yes” that the “no” is making space for.”

— Alan Cohen

283. “Great masters merit emulation, not worship.”

— Alan Cohen

284. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

285. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

287. “Any attempt to improve on God’s creation will distance you from God’s creation.”

— Alan Cohen

288. “Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”

— Alan Cohen

289. “Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.”

— Alan Cohen

290. “Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not.”

— Alan Cohen

291. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

292. “Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

295. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

296. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

297. “Simplicity is not the opposite of wealth. It is the door to the riches you already own.”

— Alan Cohen

298. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

299. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

300. “Forced change is not true change;.”

— Alan Cohen