[FairfieldLife] Andrew Cohen Quote of the Week - Serious Spiritual Practice

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Quote of the Week

Serious Spiritual Practice

These days, many people are becoming interested in the relationship between
evolution and spirituality. But it is one thing to be capable of
intellectually and even experientially appreciating these matters, and quite
another to authentically embrace the evolutionary nature of the human
experience as oneself. The ability to even recognize life as an evolving
process is a fairly recent cognitive leap in our development. And it's
another leap altogether to embrace that fact at a soul level, to begin to
live in accordance with the recognition that the self and its own experience
is part of a process that is developing in and through time. Is the life you
are living very personally oriented and self-serving, even while in
tellectually and philosophically you may understand that you are an integral
part of a vast, interrelated unfolding? Or does the life you are living
reflect a knowledge of your responsibility to a greater whole, and a care
for the evolution of the process that you are? That is the difference
between evolutionary enlightenment and simply having a highly developed
intellectual and philosophical perspective.

This teaching is all about grasping that you are part of a process in a way
that transcends mere cognition. It is about creating a manifest expression
of nonduality, and that's a big challenge. Many of us express a profound
degree of duality between what we are able to cognitively appreciate and the
way in which we embrace the life we are living. But if we are committed to
the evolution of consciousness, we need to endeavor to create and cocreate
an ever-deepening alignment between our philosophical understanding and our
actual relationship to life. That is what I call serious spiritual practice.



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