Alan Cohen Quotes

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

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There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

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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.

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Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

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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.

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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.

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You empower what you fight.
You withdraw power from what you release.

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Money is but one venue for generosity.
Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

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Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

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