"If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket."
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Alan Cohen quotes (page 13 of 14)
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"The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful."
"Mind is the cause; everything else is effect."
"True champions are team players."
"You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere."
"The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned."
"The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’."
"People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations."
"The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing."
"The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return."
"Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you."
"I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles."
"A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution."
"Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness."
"Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you."
"Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable."
"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."
"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."
"If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict."
"It's always something.” The spirit says, “It's never anything."