“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they speak of a social order that is possible on the basis of an ordering within the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism… — 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
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
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
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she begins identifying… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share
