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Reaching for the Future (Quote of the Week)

March 15th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 7 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week

What I am interested in is not what has already happened, but what is possible. What is the next possibility? That’s what Evolutionary Enlightenment is all about. So your attention is not on what is but on what could be. You are not concerned with the present moment, with being in the Now; you are [...]

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Where There Is No Other (Quote of the Week)

March 8th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 11 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When two or more individuals who have awakened to what I call the Evolutionary Impulse, or Authentic Self, come together in deep dialogue and focused conversation, the experience is something akin to thinking aloud with yourself. Why? Because there is only one Authentic Self. The ego can only have a relationship with other separate individuals, [...]

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You, Whoever You Are (Quote of the Week)

March 1st, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 12 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality, meditation

People often ask me, What is the self? What is it that actually evolves? And I always answer, It’s you, whoever you are. I don’t just mean your ego or personality. But what I’m pointing to is the fact that beneath all of that there is some essential core of selfhood or agency that is [...]

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You Are Culture (Quote of the Week)

February 22nd, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 24 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

You are not just an individual. You are culture incarnate. As an evolving self, you are the manifestation of a collective conditioned way of seeing and responding to life. This is why your conscious evolution matters so much. When you, as an individual, start using your own will to activate higher potentials within yourself, in [...]

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Sex, Romance, and Conscious Evolution (Quote of the Week)

February 15th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 11 Comments · Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

The arena of sexuality and romance is one of the easiest places to get lost and confused. This is of the utmost importance to understand for those individuals who are serious about higher spiritual development, and who are personally committed to the evolution of consciousness and culture. That being said, it is also a potentially [...]

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Evolution Is an Internal Event

February 8th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 24 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

From our contemporary perspective, the process of evolution tends to be seen only as an external event, happening “out there somewhere”—either in the cosmos or in nature. For most of us, it’s not yet accepted that evolution is both an external and an internal event. Internally, at the level of consciousness, evolution takes place in [...]

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A Messy Process (Quote of the Week)

February 1st, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 37 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

Evolution is a messy process. So anybody who really wants to make the effort to strive for something new is going to have to be willing to make mistakes, take wrong turns, even to fail, but never give up. The simple truth is this: if not failing is more important to you than genuinely succeeding, [...]

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Seek Until You Find (Quote of the Week)

January 27th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 65 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

You must seek until you find. Only when you find what you have been looking for will you be able to truly stop seeking. Better not to stop seeking energetically until then. It is imperative that you do not stop seeking until you reach the goal of Enlightenment. Do not allow yourself to stop until [...]

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Engaging in Creative Friction (Quote of the Week)

January 19th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 49 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week

In an inspired spiritual context where the evolution of consciousness and culture is the goal, coming together with others is not just about sharing an experience of peace, bliss, and harmony. It is about what I call creative friction. In fact, to me, the presence of ongoing creative friction is what indicates deep spiritual, psychological, [...]

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Deconstructing Your Culturally Created Self (Quote of the Week)

January 11th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 23 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week

The ego, which has traditionally been the enemy of the spiritual aspirant, is not just an individual entity. It also has a collective dimension. The collective ego is your culturally conditioned self–the conglomeration of conscious and unconscious ideas that represent the way you assume life is supposed to be. It is all of the “shoulds” [...]

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