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.
Andrew CohenOur 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.
Andrew CohenIf you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
Andrew CohenI 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.
Andrew CohenI'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias
Andrew CohenIn an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.
Andrew Cohen