Andrew Cohen Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

  Andrew Cohen

  Change, Enlightenment, Literature

• Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

  Andrew Cohen

  Country, Umpires, America

  "Simpson vs. McVeigh: Trials a study in contrast" by Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. June 6, 1997.

• The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

  Andrew Cohen

  Branches, Literature, Executive Branch

• 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.

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Ideas, Insecurity

• 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 Cohen

  Pain, Men, Self

• 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.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Indulge In, Differences

• Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

  Andrew Cohen

  Differences, Literature, Gender

• We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

  Andrew Cohen

  Thinking, Literature, Obstacles

• When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

  Andrew Cohen

  Self, Literature, World

• I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Gender Bias, Prejudice

• 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 her inherent fullness.

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Order, Needs

• 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

  Andrew Cohen

  Ignorance, Literature, Way

• 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 with gender as many people think they do.

  Andrew Cohen

  Thinking, People, Quality

• 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 - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Literature, Matter

• 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 of many human beings at the same time.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Teacher, Soul

• 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 be a member of.

  Andrew Cohen

  Culture, Literature, Gender

• 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 as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

  Andrew Cohen

  Crazy, Men, Literature

• 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.

  Andrew Cohen

  Giving Up, Past, Literature

• To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

  Andrew Cohen

  Cutting, Tree, Colonialism

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