Andrew Cohen Quotes (64 Quotes)


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

    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.

    I'm not sure that jurors are really going to care about the niceties of mental illness when they hear someone mock 9-11 that way. It's such an inhuman perspective on a tragedy, so full of spite and hate, that jurors may decide there is no place on this earth for this guy.

    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.

    Clearly, he didn't say anything embarrassing or controversial or stupid that would have harmed his chances. And I think the losers in the week have to be these Senate Judiciary Committee members who had this precious time and instead used their time to make political speeches that, really, very few people listened to.


    There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.


    The court almost had to take up this issue again. It was clear in 2003 when it said that you could not limit this procedure unless certain exceptions were in place. Congress then enacted a law without those restrictions and now the court will have to decide whether the justification for the Congressional action is constitutional or not. It should be a very close case, almost certainly a five-four ruling.

    We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

    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.

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

    There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

    This scenario sending the case back down for more consideration was discussed at length during the oral argument on the case so I'm not sure that the parties here are terribly surprised that the Court would punt on the merits and perhaps avoid the issue altogether. The Court frequently does this, in cases large and small.

    Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

    What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth

    None of this means necessarily that DeLay is going to be indicted. But a deal like this only strengthens the government's hand.

    John G. Roberts, Jr. took hold of his former bosss casket along with seven other former law clerks as they strode up the steps of the Supreme Court, ... Each of them seemed deep in thought each struggling a bit to walk up the same grand marble steps that Roberts spoke so eloquently about that night in July when he was first nominated for Justice Sandra Day OConnors spot.

    I intend to work with my department to take what has happened and make something good come from it.

    First he says he wants to die a martyr and now he is begging the jury to spare his life and telling the panel that his dedicated lawyers are out to get him. It doesn't add up and perhaps that's exactly what he has in mind.

    The unanimous ruling tells me that there wasn't a lot of patience or sympathy by the court for the argument by the law schools. And I would think that this finally ends the long-running legal debate on this issue.

    The problem for Cunningham at sentencing is that he can't really argue that his many years of public service warrant leniency since the charges against him, and what he pleaded guilty to, go to the very core of the quality and integrity of that service. He's in a no-win situation at sentencing and he probably knows it.

    We got to play four quarters of lacrosse. We have to be on top of our game.

    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.

    We come at this in a proactive way, at a very high level. We're saying you can save money by managing your information in a proactive and smarter way up front, by thinking about what information belongs in the repository and also by having the right tools to manage that information.

    It's a very broken business process. Companies just don't have tools to do this in the right way. Sometimes the cost of discovery can be higher than whatever settlement ends up getting paid in a lawsuit.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    We are disappointed with our results lately and the morale is a bit down but the will is there to turn things around.

    A lot of people on all sides of this fight were hoping the Court would step in and answer the question of what the president could do or not do to these so-called enemy combatants.

    Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

    This case was more about the scope of federal racketeering law than it was about abortions or abortion rights.

    When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

    We went through a lot of pain, and spent a lot of money just for data processing costs on some pretty routine discoveries. That got my attention.

    This really says something about the role of science education in this country and begs us to question how we are teaching evolutionary theory.

    Great Things About Being...' is a provocative and often dead-on look at stereotypes created by popular culture, and provides a tongue-in-cheek and satirical perspective that most anyone can relate to.

    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.

    The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

    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.

    He's going to be like a tour guide, leading federal prosecutors by the hand through the sordid details of these deals. The best the members of Congress can hope for is more political embarrassment. The worst is serious prison time.

    This ruling will encourage other people in other states who may have been contemplating similar assisted-suicide laws to go ahead and get them on the books and as long as those other laws are similar to the Oregon law they ought to pass the constitutional test. And I wouldn't be surprised if these efforts begin immediately.

    The judge didn't order the feds to suddenly release all sorts of classified or secret information. All the judge did was to tell the Justice Department that it has to speed up its response to a request for information about the National Security Agency program. And the information that initially will be released will be very unspecific. The big battles are yet to come over how much of this stuff eventually is made public.

    So this is a case where Padilla loses the round in court but actually gains some measure of freedom. Padilla wins by losing. He gets out of military custody now and presumably into an environment in some jail somewhere where he will have more complete access to his lawyers and a better chance not just to see the allegations against him but to prepare his own defense.

    Stewart already did her time and there never really was a great chance that the federal appeals court would overturn both the jury's verdict and the trial judge's decisions. So this sews up this case on another losing note for Stewart.

    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.

    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!

    What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.

    I think it's unfortunate that we don't spend time talking about our role in the world.

    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.

    You end up not being able to handle that in house, and it gets thrown over the wall to an outside counsel. Once you throw it over the wall, they charge you a tremendous amount of money by the hour to review that information.


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