March 29, 2010
The Key to Liberation (Quote of the Week)
I don’t believe we have to solve all of our psychological problems in order to become liberated human beings. In the way that I teach, the key to our liberation is simple and direct: it occurs when we discover and recognize something that is more important. When you awaken to something that has infinitely greater spiritual, moral, and philosophical value than your personal problems, when you discover a higher perspective that is inherently more meaningful than the woes of your wounded self, those problems and woes won’t necessarily disappear, but they suddenly appear to be dramatically less important. Now, in a deep and profound and significant way, you are just not as interested in that personal world any more. And that’s how you find liberation. It’s not because you work through your psychological problems; it’s because you begin to lose interest in them. The discovery of that which is higher is the secret to becoming a dignified, self-respecting, caring, and spiritually liberated human being, right now.
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Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
I believe that is a profound revelation, one which is to the point and relieves one from the “pity party” syndrome which deepens one into the “woe is me” existence keeping one from the bounty and joy of living.
Psychological problems can never be solved completely even though psychoanalysis has been trying hard in the recent époques. But psychoanalysis cannot succeed; at the most it can patch you up, but never help you getting rid of all your problems.
What is needed is not a psychological analysis, but a Meta psychology, the metamorphosis of your being.
This metamorphosis of the being will bring you a total transformation, ceasing of your old personality, given to you by others, and flourishing of your real individuality, of your authentic self. Flowering in an authentic individuality you can by bringing awareness in yourself, by connecting to your inner center of being. Nothing is “more important” and “has infinitely greater spiritual, moral and philosophical value” than your inner core being.
“The discovery of that which is higher” is in fact the discovery of that which is inwards, your being. Only by connecting to your inner center of being can you become “a dignified spiritually liberated human being”, utterly yourself.
But if you keep projecting yourself in an outside distant impersonal something of great philosophical value, you can never reconnect yourself to your true center of existence and source of life energy.
I noticed that, if the name of a commenter is in blue, clicking on the name goes to their website. Some of them are very interesting, like in the comments to the first article on the home page. Y V Chawla has a power point or some such slide show link at the bottom of his page that is very healing of the spirit and seems real appropriate to this topic.
Healing may not be wholy necessary, but it’s real nice. lol