Alan Cohen Quotes

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

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

Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about one thing and months later you're playing it and thinking, hang on, this is completely informing where I am now.

I learned always to follow your heart.

I've had experiences where my life will try to tell me something in a dream and sometimes it's something I'm not ready to hear.

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it.

We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.

Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.