The work of cultivating experiences called "peak experiences" or "mystic moments" or "breakthroughs" until they become more accessible is part of the essential nature of genuine spiritual discipline. These are moments, at the very least, of approaching the experiential verification… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a… — 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, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of… — 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 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 from pleasure, or from getting things or power over people or money or fame or even health and survival. None of these sometimes very good things can bring ultimate meaning to our lives. We are born… — 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 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 made use of it. By now you ought to realize what cosmos you are apart of, and what divine administrator you owe your existence to, and that an end to your time here has been marked… — 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 God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were in turn illuminated by all the philosophical and historical knowledge I had by then amassed and I began to understand… — 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 Image
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