Alan Cohen Quotes

The soul is the truth of who we are.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

I like the idea that the body is a vessel, that it's not necessarily representative of the real you that's inside of it.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

Love is not what we become but who we already are

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence.

Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

The spirit is the true self.

Ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.

All we are is in the soul.

I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.