Andrew Cohen’s weekly email quotation this week looks at the problem of choice and its link with the personal ego. Only alignment with the Authentic Self liberates our freedom of choice, Cohen cogently argues.

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The Liberation of Choice
When any one of us is deeply identified with the limited and separate self sense that is ego, our experience of the power of choice does not feel free. One feels very much like a victim, a prisoner of one’s own emotional, psychological, and conceptual world. In the ego, there is a very fixed, unconscious, and habit-driven relationship to experience, which makes it appear as if there is no freedom of choice. But when we discover the evolutionary impulse, which is our own Authentic Self, something very important occurs. When our miraculous capacity to choose becomes liberated to a significant degree from the ego’s narrow world, we become capable of expressing enlightenment through action. Eventually, if we go far enough in our own higher development, in our spiritual evolution, our capacity to choose will become profoundly aligned with the first cause, the god principle, the energy and intelligence behind the initial choice to become. And when your power of choice begins to align itself with the creative impulse in this way, then your own deepest heart-felt spiritual aspiration and desire to evolve becomes one with the original intention to create the universe. And you begin to see that the next step in evolution has everything to do with conscious choice.

Andrew Cohen