Andrew Cohen Quotes

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.

To be rather than to seem.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

In simplicity there is truth.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.