In Alan Cohen’s work, I couldn’t find much where he speaks about silence or meditation, so for today’s message I’m just including a few thoughts that really sit well with me… “If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life … Continue reading God hangs out in the spaces between your thoughts.
“Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.” - Alan Cohen Your triggers are all inside of you. Nothing and no-one in the world can trigger you unless you already have … Continue reading How free will you be when nothing around you can trigger you anymore?
Love can be a difficult concept to describe in words that clearly can't do it justice. Alan Cohen is our teacher this week, so let's take a look at his descriptions of love: "We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we … Continue reading Try not to judge them in the moments that they succumb to their own fears.
A message from today's meditation: What is it that places limits on us? It is always our own fears. "Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning our old limitations." - Alan Cohen "All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can … Continue reading Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities.
A message from today's meditation: What keeps us from being present, is almost always the intrusion of repetitive thoughts from our past… "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." - Alan Cohen "Everything … Continue reading There is opportunity in every moment, but we miss it when we are in an automatic response from our past.
Today's journey highlights one of our most fundamental survival tools, the masks we wear… "You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside." - Alan Cohen I love the clarity of this quote, that we are in integrity only when our inside matches the … Continue reading The wearing of masks is a tool in our survival toolkit.
This week, we'll dive into the teachings of Alan Cohen. And as we step into this week, he reminds us that we don't need to have all of the clarity in order to take the next step. And also, I couldn't resist adding Rumi's teaching on the same subject as well: "Do not wait until … Continue reading Are you putting too much pressure on yourself to create perfection?
