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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/our-relationship-to-reality-and-to-our-experience-is-all-based-upon/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

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## More by Andrew Cohen

> [“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/if-you-know-only-one-language-you-re-a-prisoner-stuck-in-the-tyranny/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/spiritual-experiences-and-their-results-are-not-meant-for-the/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/i-am-already-inherently-full-and-complete-as-i-am-man-doesn-t-need/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [Freedom has no history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/freedom-has-no-history/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/whenever-a-human-being-ceases-to-live-for-themselves-and-begins-to/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/the-executive-branch-maneuvered-this-result-deftly/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/most-men-are-very-attached-to-the-idea-of-being-male-and-usually/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/its-taken-14-billion-years-for-matter-to-gain-the-capacity-to-become/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/anyone-who-wants-to-be-truly-free-must-be-willing-to-stand-alone-in/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/to-campaign-against-colonialism-is-like-barking-up-a-tree-that-has/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/we-are-all-capable-of-greatness-when-we-know-without-any-doubt-that/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/it-is-not-enough-to-be-well-intentioned-one-must-strive-to-put-those/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/i-believe-that-any-individual-who-has-spiritually-awakened-in-our/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [“The dynamic, future-oriented, ecstatically inspired state of the evolutionary impulse is the new enlightenment that I am speaking about. The inner eye has become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/the-dynamic-future-oriented-ecstatically-inspired-state-of-the/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

> [A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cohen/a-lot-of-people-in-spiritual-life-use-the-awareness-of-difference-and/)

[Andrew Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cohen/)

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