Alan Cohen Quotes

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.