Andrew Cohen Quotes

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• Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being…
• 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…
• 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…
• To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
• In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than…
• 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…
• 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…
• Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
• 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…
• We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When…
• When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
• Freedom has no history.
• Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
• The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.
• 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 effect…
• Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
• 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…

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