ALAN COHEN

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

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.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

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

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

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.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

Our history is not our destiny.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

God is a frequency. Stay tuned.

You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.

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.

The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

You are doing better than you think you are.

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.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

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.

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.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Dance on the edge of mystery.

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.