quotes by Andrew Cohen

The big question, for those of us who care about the evolution of consciousness and culture, is what is the next step supposed to look like? We know what it feels like—it feels very inspiring. When you awaken to the evolutionary impulse, it's exciting, and at times even overwhelming, so full of positivity and possibility. And when you discover a higher perspective, it's thrilling—like waking up from a dream. But that's about as far as most of us have come. So now, inspired by these breakthrough experiences, we need to begin to create some shared agreements about where we are going and what our lives would look like if they were authentic expressions of the shared vision of the possible we find in an evolutionary awakening. Until now, the only reference points we have had for how to live are what has already happened. Unless we are serious and focused on consciously creating a new form for our shared culture, even though our minds might be informed by higher perspectives and our hearts might be alive with the thrill of the possible, our lives are probably not going to look much different from the lives our parents lived. So I feel that these deeper questions in relationship to cultural development are something we all urgently need to engage with. Nobody has figured this out yet.

When we stop being a seeker and become a finder, we no longer have any doubt about who we really are and why we are here on Earth. In our own direct awakening to Spirit's true face, existential doubt dies a sudden and irrevocable death, liberating an infectious confidence that is rooted deep within our souls. A true finder may or may not continue to engage in spiritual practice, but if he or she does, it is motivated only by the desire to continue to evolve for the sake of the evolutionary process itself. Indeed, in evolutionary spirituality, making the noble effort to catalyze our own individual and collective higher development is recognized to be the very raison d'être of human beings at the leading edge. And we can only begin to do this when we have given up seeking forever. Then and only then will we stop reaching for a spiritual epiphany to convince us of something. We instead make the effort to evolve because we are in love with life and are committed to unlocking its highest potentials through our own development. Those potentials will only come to the fore when we are no longer trying to become enlightened but have let go of any other option than to be the expression of the highest we have seen and experienced, in all our imperfection, right now. That's what it means to be a finder.