For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor,… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe happiness comes… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
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