Recent Posts in ‘Quote of the Week’
When the Door Opens
The kinds of spiritual experiences that have the power to liberate or enlighten us are not so difficult to come upon if we earnestly seek them out. But if we want to evolve in the most important way, there is a much bigger issue that needs to be understood. And that is the all-important matter
No Expectations
In the way that I teach meditation, the idea is to simply to assume a position of freedom from the very beginning. You’re not trying to create any particular experience. Experiences may come and go, but you are not seeking for experiences. You are just assuming the position of unconditional freedom, without any expectations. You
Preoccupied with the Possible
The following quote was taken from Andrew Cohen’s answer to a reader’s question in a previous post: QUESTION: What do you mean when you say that awakening to the evolutionary impulse literally changes everything and inspires you to become a completely different person? ANSWER: This means that when we awaken to what I call the
Creating New Habits
In the end, as I see it, there are only two possibilities for a human life. Either you strive to move beyond where you already are or else you continue to do what you have already done. Unless you have a vision that reaches beyond everything your life has been about so far, what is
The Paradox of Meditation
The meditation experience is interesting because on one hand it is about completely letting go of everything, and on the other hand, it is about paying more attention. It’s a paradox. Let go of everything and have the courage and faith and conviction to keep letting go, fearlessly, no matter what arises. But don’t let
A Cosmic Orientation
The evolution of our consciousness and our culture is an awe-inspiring task, but I believe it is possible for anyone who cares deeply enough about it. Those of us who feel compelled by the evolutionary impulse must be willing to embrace the dramatic scale at which the life-process is operating. When we awaken to the
In All Your Imperfection
It’s important to remember that your ego—your separate personal self-sense and all its culturally conditioned tendencies—is just not awake to the urgent need for your participation in the evolutionary process. That’s why your ego is convinced that it has all the time in the world to be eternally busy with its own self-improvement. It says,
Questioning Our Spiritual Values
Those of us who are interested in the spiritual dimension of evolution and how it affects our shared culture, need to start questioning so many of our assumptions. Today, although we are well into the twenty-first century, too many of our progressive psycho-spiritual values and practices haven’t changed very much in the last thirty or
What Does the Next Step Look Like?
The big question, for those of us who care about the evolution of consciousness and culture, is what is the next step supposed to look like? We know what it feels like—it feels very inspiring. When you awaken to the evolutionary impulse, it’s exciting, and at times even overwhelming, so full of positivity and possibility.
In Love with the Possible
When you have the profound awakening that you are part of a cosmic process that’s going somewhere, you find yourself falling more deeply in love with what’s possible than you are with what has already happened. And this shift inevitably challenges almost all of your values and beliefs, including your ideas about what it means
Shifting Our Shared Values
The evolutionary process is going somewhere. Its next step is not predetermined, but now, maybe for the first time in history, we can participate with more conscious awareness than ever before in the creation of where it’s going. When we make the effort to identify more with the vertical energy of the impulse to evolve
From the First Cause Itself
The awakening of the spiritual impulse in the human heart and mind is the universe becoming conscious of itself through its own emerging creative process. When you, an awakening human being, experience that urge, the intensity of your creative inspiration is coming from the First Cause itself. The interior of the cosmos is awakening to
Redefining God
Using the word God is always tricky as it’s a very charged term that means different things to different people. I like to use that word to represent the idea of an absolute principle. In an evolutionary context, we could choose to describe that absolute principle as “the energy and intelligence that initially created and
Egoless Relatedness
When two or more people meet who have awakened to the evolutionary impulse, there is the potential for egoless relatedness. And that is what those of us at the leading edge who want to push the boundaries of our own spiritual development need to discover. We have to find a way to meet one another
Spiritual Maturity
Spiritual maturity is not a matter of how long you have lived or even how much life experience you have. The important question is: how much does any of us actually learn from our life experience? Those people who are more spiritually developed are people who have been deeply paying attention, who are sensitive and
A Portal for Creation (Quote of the Week)
In the way that I use the term, God is the energy and intelligence that created the universe and is driving the process forward in every moment. And that energy and intelligence cares desperately about change and innovation and the release of potentials that have not existed before. So it is constantly looking for portals
A New Spiritual Orientation (Quote of the Week)
Evolution is a new spiritual orientation. Most of us with a Western education are familiar with the idea of cosmic evolution—we’re aware that the cosmos is in a process of ever-greater complexification and that we are part of that evolving process. We’re aware of the Darwinian notion of biological evolution and accept the scientific evidence
Beyond the Present Moment (Quote of the Week)
A big part of my job is getting people interested in creating the future at the level of consciousness. In order to do that, we have to suspend our concerns about how we’re going to get over certain very real problems that exist in the present moment. For at least a moment, we have to
Are You Moving? (Quote of the Week)
What gives me the greatest spiritual confidence is the knowledge that I’m moving. I know that I’m continuing to develop. Philosophically, spiritually, personally, I am not in the same place I was a decade ago, a year ago, or even six months ago. And as long as that’s the case, I will have the confidence
The World Is Not “Out There” (Quote of the Week)
If we are interested in the evolution of consciousness and culture, one habit that we need to break is the tendency to speak about the world as if it exists “out there.” From the perspective that I call evolutionary nonduality, we don’t want to separate our self from the world process because when we do
Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
