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    <![CDATA[Why Your Life Sucks]]>
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    <![CDATA[The in-your-face, no-hype guide to getting happy&#8230;<br/><br/>Your life sucks if&#8230;<br/>&#8226; You routinely make someone or something more important than you<br/>&#8226; The life you are living on the outside doesn&#8217;t match who you are on the inside<br/>&#8226; You say yes when you mean no<br/>&#8226; You try to fix other people<br/>&#8226; You&#8217;ve forgotten to enjoy the ride<br/><br/>When your life sucks, it&#8217;s a wake-up call. Now self-help guru and bestselling author Alan Cohen invites you to answer that call, change your course, and enjoy the life you were meant to live. In ten compelling chapters, Cohen shows you how to stop wasting your energy on people and things that deaden you&#8211;and use it for things you love. <br/><br/>With great humor, great examples, and exhilarating directness, <strong>Why Your Life Sucks</strong> doesn&#8217;t just spell out the ways in which you undermine your power, purpose, and creativity&#8211;it shows you how to reverse the damage. Here is an encouraging but loud-and-clear reminder that in every moment we generate our own experience by the choices we make, and that today is the best day to begin your new life.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Very positive and in tune with our needs today.&quot;<br/>LEO BUSCAGLIA<br/>Alan Cohen's story is an inspiration. From his roots as an Orthodox Jew, he took a mind-expanding tour of the teachings of Jesus, Ram Dass, Zen, Jung, the Esalen Institute, and Einstein, to name a few. In this extraordinary collection of lyrical, challenging essays, Cohen synthesizes what he has learned from these masters, and shares his journey with all of us. He discusses overcoming limitations, creating fulfilling relationships, tuning into the flow of life, transformation, finding a personal path, and the greatest gift of all, love. Read it straight through, or essay by essay, for daily meditations on the mysteries of God, love, and the spiritual path.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1993</published>
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    <![CDATA[I Had It All the Time: When Self-Improvement Gives Way to Ecstasy]]>
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    <![CDATA[Whether you are a newcomer or a veteran on the path of  self-improvement, I Had it All the Time will awaken you to a life so  magnificent that you will laugh at the notion of improving what love  made whole. Quit fixing yourself and get on with the life you came to  live.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
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    <![CDATA[Dare to Be Yourself: How to Quit Being an Extra in Other Peoples Movies and Become the Star of Your Own]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this powerful map to self-discovery, Alan Cohen draws on sources from Buddhism to the Bible, from Gandhi and Einstein to A Course In Miracles, sharing many of his own radiant moments of revelation on the spiritual path. He shows how we can let go of the past, overcome fear, and discover the power of love in our lives. Once we are engaged in the work of truly being ourselves, each challenge becomes an opportunity for growth, each choice a lesson in commitment, each relationship a renewal of God's work.<br/>Dare To Be Yourself will dramatically enlighten, empower, and enliven you as you awaken to life and love and the unique gifts that are yours to give the world.<br/>&quot;Alan Cohen has a rare and precious quality. He inspires happiness, and the message itself is as pure as his heart.&quot; -- Hugh Prather]]>
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    <![CDATA[A Deep Breath of Life: Daily Inspiration for Heart-Centered Living]]>
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    <![CDATA[Book of daily thoughts, stories, and reflections that mirror the author's heartfelt philosophy about life, love, and interpersonal relationships.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less]]>
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    <![CDATA[Handle With Prayer: Harnessing the Power to Make Your Dreams Come Through]]>
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    <![CDATA[Offers a wealth of insights into deepening our prayer and bringing our dreams to life and guides you to create real and lasting changes.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss]]>
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    <![CDATA[You'll identify with the joys, challenges, and triumphs on the path to God that begin and end in the heart.]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Don't Get Lucky - Get Smart: Why Your Love Life Sucks-and What You Can Do About It]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;With the same humor, real-world examples, and charming directness as Why Your Life Sucks, Don't Get Lucky — Get Smart spells out why many of us have been unlucky in love — and also offers practical ways to increase our relationship intelligence. From a self-help guru who admittedly owned a lot of unreal estate in dating hell for years, Don't Get Lucky distils the common reasons we all have bad — or just not great — relationships, showing us how to recognize our own patterns, and ultimately how to change for the better. An original voice with highly practical information: Cohen debunks the common myths we bring to dating and offers new insight into the realities of relationships. For example, chances are your love life sucks if you often… -Mistake &quot;hope at first sight&quot; for &quot;love at first sight&quot; -Date out of desperation. People who feel desperate do desperate things — and create desperate results -Seek only The Right Person — which may be a way of avoiding relationship -Get stuck on The Wrong Person — again and again and again&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Looking in for Number One: Adventures in Uncommon Sense]]>
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    <![CDATA[Alan Cohen shares this thoughts, dreams, humor, and compassion in fifty-two engaging essays. The book, Cohen says, is about &quot;taking our power back from external authorities and living the life we would choose, the life that calls us by virtue of the voice of joy within us.&quot;]]>
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