Alan Cohen Quotes

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Truth is within ourselves.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

Your real identity is your spiritual being. And every problem, if you're a spiritual being, every problem has a spiritual solution.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

Truths are a result of knowing yourself.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.