The Whole of the Holy Life

In the early days of my teaching career, it became more and more obvious to me that the Buddha was right when he said: "Association with like-minded people is the whole of the holy life." And that is simply because the holy life, the spiritually enlivened and awakened life-if it is to have any real impact on the world-is about the sharing of higher values with other human beings. Any individual can experience liberating insight and clarifying revelation in the privacy of their own subjective interior.

But when insight and revelation are being experienced as part of a shared higher state, something truly sacred begins to occur. The potential of a new, more enlightened world emerges here and now. And then, when it is not only seen but also acted upon, that which was only an unmanifest potential suddenly becomes a powerful manifest reality. We see and feel the world change before our very eyes in the most real way imaginable.

Andrew Cohen

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Always Now

The ego will always insist that it needs more time.

But if your intention to evolve, to become enlightened, is more important to you than anything else, you won’t need time.
If there is integrity in your spiritual aspirations, you will be ready now. Good intentions for the future only flatter the ego. When you’re serious, the time is always now.

Unless you intend to do it now, you won’t do it. Evolutionary Enlightenment—which is the experience of consciousness beyond ego in a developmental context—only emerges when now is the only time that means anything to you.

Andrew Cohen

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The Evolution of God

This trailer previews a far reaching discussion between Andrew Cohen and Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith as they expand our understanding of God and the evolving, changing nature of consciousness itself. The entire dialogue is available on DVD at http://www.andrewcohen.org/evolution-...

You can also visit Andrew Cohen's blog and website EnlightNext.

Andrew Cohen is dedicated to igniting a revolution in human consciousness. As a 21st-century spiritual teacher and cultural visionary, he is exploring the outer reaches of human potential with the leading thinkers, mystics, scholars, and activists of our time.

In 1988, Cohen founded EnlightenNext to help catalyze the next great step in our individual and collective development.

Andrew Cohen is redefining the spiritual ideal of enlightenment for the twenty-first century. Through his revolutionary philosophy, his award-winning magazine, and his work with thousands of individuals and groups around the world, he is dedicated to creating nothing less than a revolution in consciousness and culture.

What is Enlightenment online magazine

WIE is a category-busting spiritual, cultural, and philosophical magazine committed to bringing a new perspective to science, religion, business, politics, the arts, and the environment.

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