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by
Alan Cohen
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August 22 - August 31, 2025
“I am not the victim of the world I see”
“Do you prefer that you be right or happy?”
The body is a representation of mind and emotions.
At any moment you can change your mind, which leads to transformed circumstances. Your body doesn’t cause your thoughts. It is a result of them.
The right-thinking mind regards pain and difficulty as a call for kindness and compassion.
“All things are lessons God would have me learn”
“Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you”
The will of God is entirely, utterly, eternally, only love.
Mind creates experience. All of life is mind over matter.
Magic is the misappropriation of authority from the inner spirit to an external force. But there is no external force. You are not in the world. The world is in you. Everything that seems to be in the world is in your mind. There is nothing outside of you.
Magic is a projection of our innate power onto a neutral object. We suffer only from displacement of divinity.
“I am under no laws but God’s”
How liberating to consider that you don’t need anything outside yourself to be healed or happy!
All the authority you will ever need is seeded within your soul. Look there and nowhere else.
Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself. The outcome is what he decides that it is.
Remove from your mind all the preconditions you believe are required before you can be well, and the healing you thought was distant or impossible is available now.
All disease is a denial of love, and all denial of love is fear.
With love, all things thrive.
Genuine healing is holistic.
The healing of the body proceeds from the healing of the mind, and the healing of the mind proceeds from the healing of the soul.
The Holy Spirit is the part of your mind that remains connected to the Mind of God even while another part of the mind is immersed in the illusion of separation.
Ultimately only the voice of love is your own. Everything else doesn’t belong to you.
Everything you need to know is given freely, seeded within you. Seek not outside yourself.
When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. —
“The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite”
Remove from your mind the belief that there is something you must do first before you can be happy.
Love is where you are because love is what you are.
Even while you labor under the illusion that you must provide for yourself, God is caring for you.
Your heart beats, your lungs breathe, your stomach digests, and all of your organs play their intricate and complex roles perfectly. Neither can you manage the vast brilliant systems mechanizing the universe around you. The earth maintains its perfect distance from the sun at its precise angle of tilt; water rises from the sea to rain on the plants that feed you, and it evaporates to perpetually repeat the cycle; a cut on your finger heals without you knowing how to regrow your skin. You participate in a supremely intelligent process far vaster than you can supervise.
You may believe you are responsible for your well-being, but you are not. You are responsible to cooperate, not control.
“I am sustained by the Love of God” (...
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By grace I live. By grace I am released.
You were not born to be a passive observer of life. You were born to dive into the adventure and allow Higher Power to operate through you, as well as for you.
“If you can’t pray a door open, don’t pry it open.” What is right for you wants to come to you. What is not right for you wants to flee from you. If you have to fight to get or keep something, it doesn’t belong to you and you are better off without it. Something better belongs to you.
Hold your consciousness at the highest elevation you can, and what is yours will know your face.
You can shortcut years or lifetimes of hardship by accepting grace and letting ease be your guide.
“Delay does not matter in eternity, but it is tragic in time”
Convenience is not something that happens to you. It is something you choose.
Your spiritual connection is more important than anything else you do.
When love and fear meet, only love remains.
When you cultivate activities that truly bring you joy, you establish yourself in the domain of the soul.
“I am never upset for the reason I think”
The Spiritual Eye sees through a different lens. It sees everything as grounds for gratitude, the shortest route to success and fulfillment.
“It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are helpful”
Define all change as good, even if you don’t see the blessing at the moment. It is there and will reveal itself.
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
Stop fighting life and let it love you. Miracles are seeking you. Now you must let them find you.
We ask for long life, but ‘tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
When you feel fearful, rushed, stressed, or upset, you experience less time. When you are relaxed and in the flow of life, you experience more time. When you are completely in the moment, you do not experience time at all.
As you step into joy, you escape the domain time appears to rule.
