Andrew Cohen Quotes
When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.
Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.
When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.
Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.
The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias
I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.
