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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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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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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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Leave the Door Open for That Which Is New (Quote of the Week)

December 21st, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 12 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

Without being aware of it, many of us tend to base our sense of what’s possible now, in this present moment, upon what has or has not happened in the past. But if we want to be spiritually liberated, indeed, if we want to be an expression of evolution-in-action, we have to dare to look [...]

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Why Are We Here? (Quote of the Week)

December 14th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 9 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When we awaken to the evolutionary impulse, we realize a completely new relationship to what it means to be alive and what it means to be ourselves here and now. Not only do we discover a freedom to be ourselves that we’ve never known before, but even more importantly, we find a reason for living [...]

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A Spontaneous Care (Quote of the Week)

December 8th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 1 Comment · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When we discover the part of ourselves that I call the Evolutionary Impulse, or Authentic Self, we experience what it’s like to care passionately about the creative process in the same way that a mother feels about her newborn child. A mother not only experiences an unconditional commitment to the welfare of her child in [...]

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