December 14, 2009
Why Are We Here? (Quote of the Week)
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 with intense commitment and liberated passion that gives us an incomparable sense of personal, philosophical, and spiritual self-confidence. We suddenly begin to understand, in ways that both include and transcend our intellect, that the reason we are here on Earth (once all of our basic survival needs have been met) is not merely to experience security, comfort, pleasure, or even peace of mind but to develop. We realize that we are here to consciously evolve, to intentionally do anything and everything we can to unleash all of the extraordinary creative potential within, so that the human race’s next step can, in some small but not insignificant way, emerge through us.
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Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
This is True ..well said…
Isn’t anyone asking the question, “What are we evolving toward/to?” All this rah-rah about such a vague abstraction.
For the times they are a changing.
“DEVELOP”
This seems to sum up much of what I’ve been mulling over for a life time.
Thank you for pointing out the necessity of our basic survival needs being met as part of, or a prerequisite to continue this Universal Journey.
In my 36 year Journey as a Military Man moving towards another level of awareness and “Development”. I have at times been “Turned Off” by those who seem to sit comfortably with an apparently secure source of “survival needs” , Survival needs often secured by the blood of me and mine, and then presume to deny that others who have not reached even the basic Survival level are some how less than AWARE when they use what ever tools are at there disposel to reach a point where the concept of DEVELOP can over come the “NEED TO SURVIVE”
I realize I am not addressing the issue of those who have far exceded “Survival Need “or even Comfort but I am gratified as I continue to explore this treasure trove of Ideas (EnlightenNext)and concepts that it is an arena that is not left idle.
Peaceful
What we awaken to is not some “evolutionary impulse” somebody from outside has programmed in us. When we awaken, we simply awaken to ourselves, to our real nature, to our innermost core being. We do not realize any new relationships, we simply “come” back to ourselves, we come to know that there is nowhere to go and nothing to “develop” into. We are already it. We understand that it is all about being, not about becoming. We understand that we are eternal (not simply”alive”). We realize that there is nowhere else we can really be, except Now and Here, only NowHere is.
We do not need any more any reason to live, because life does not need reasons. Life is a mystery. The mystery never ends, it cannot end. That´s why it is called a mystery, it cannot be known ever. It will never become knowledge, that´s why it is called a mystery; something in it is eternally elusive. And that´s the whole joy of life. The great splendor of life is that it keeps you eternally engaged, searching, exploring. Life is exploration, life is adventure.Live totally, and live intensely, so that each moment becomes golden and your whole life becomes a series of golden moments.
We do not anymore project ourselves as saviors of the “human race”, because there is nothing like “human race”. It is only a term, it is not real and existential, because human race does not have a soul, does not have a being of itself. Only human beings are, only individuals are and each individual has the choice and the individual responsibility to awaken to his true nature.
Dear Aliya, I liked your explanation. It sounds so close to reality. thanks !. Kaunain
Hi Aliya,
The comedian Lilly Tomplin said:
”Schizophrenia beats having lunch alone!”
So much for your individualism! — Read my post for Andrew Cohen.
Dear Harry Winter,
And what is so bad in having lunch alone? Do not you owe yourself at least this much – a lunch offering?
Do not you think you deserve attention and time of your own?
By the way, it is what meditation is – encountering yourself. To trust yourself and to be sure that your true being deserves all your love and attention. Because only Being is, no thing else, no body else.
A serious commitment to life, a faith in the ever still ground of being and moving developmental process is the only journey that us sentient beings, personally and collectively reaching forward into perfection.
Knowing before thought, with awareness one’s light beams forth with faith of an all encompassing universal insight within, as well as united in all the cosmos, a revelation of miraculous proportions.
Sometimes there’s no need to wonder why, how, when, ect; to simply acknowledge faith, god in us all.
While John Wesley was a student at Oxford, he met an impoverished janitor, who, in spite of his humble circumstances, displayed a constant sense of joy. Frustrated by this man’s witness, Wesley asked, “You thank God when you have nothing to eat, nothing to wear, and no place to sleep. What else do you thank him for? The servant simply said, “I thank ‘im that ‘e has given me life and being; and a heart to love ‘im and a desire to serve ‘im.”
“We see things as we are and not as they are.”
-Leo Rosten