Andrew Cohen

Spiritual teacher

1955-10-23 – 2025-03-25

Andrew Cohen was an American spiritual teacher, author, and founder of the What Is Enlightenment? magazine project, later called EnlightenNext. He was associated with the teaching approach he termed Evolutionary Enlightenment.

Quotes by Andrew Cohen

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
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We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
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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 a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
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Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
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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.
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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.
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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 his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
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