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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.Alan Cohen
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Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.Alan Cohen
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Time reveals character.Alan Cohen
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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.Alan Cohen
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There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.Alan Cohen
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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.Alan Cohen
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The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.Alan Cohen
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Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.Alan Cohen
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Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.Alan Cohen
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Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.Alan Cohen
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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
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Forgiveness doesn’t make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.Alan Cohen
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You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.Alan Cohen
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Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.Alan Cohen
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Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.Alan Cohen
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Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.Alan Cohen
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Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.Alan Cohen
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Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.Alan Cohen
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The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.Alan Cohen
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This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.Alan Cohen
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All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.Alan Cohen
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If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.Alan Cohen
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Quit making believe you don’t know. You do know. Act on it.Alan Cohen
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Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.Alan Cohen
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Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.Alan Cohen
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Be at peace with your choices. They all serve you.Alan Cohen
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Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.Alan Cohen
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Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.Alan Cohen
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Do not confuse humility with humiliation.Alan Cohen
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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.Alan Cohen
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To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.Alan Cohen
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Agony is not something that happens to you. To agonize is a choice.Alan Cohen
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Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.Alan Cohen
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Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.Alan Cohen
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The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.Alan Cohen
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People who pressure you usually deserve a “no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes".Alan Cohen
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Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.Alan Cohen
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Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t.Alan Cohen
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When you reframe problems as projects or opportunities, they will cease to bother you and begin to stimulate you.Alan Cohen
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Experiment to discover how little you need.Alan Cohen
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Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.Alan Cohen
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The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~Alan Cohen
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Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.Alan Cohen
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Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.Alan Cohen
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Quit planning your dream and start living it.Alan Cohen
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Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.Alan Cohen
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For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.Alan Cohen
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When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.Alan Cohen
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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. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.Alan Cohen
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.Alan Cohen
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.Alan Cohen
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Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.Alan Cohen