When the Door Opens

The kinds of spiritual experiences that have the power to liberate or enlighten us are not so difficult to come upon if we earnestly seek them out. But if we want to evolve in the most important way, there is a much bigger issue that needs to be understood. And that is the all-important matter of whether we're ready to respond wholeheartedly, fearlessly, and courageously when that door that we may have been knocking on so insistently unexpectedly opens. Our willingness to respond without reservation is what gives the evolutionary impulse—or the God-force in the universe—its power to affect real and lasting change, to catalyze the kind of transformation that will ultimately have an impact on our culture.

—Andrew Cohen