In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Christian traditions and I was astonished to find in those writings… — 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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