Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one. — Jacob Needleman Defined Copy Share Image
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning. — Jacob Needleman Born Copy Share Image
Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are. — Jacob Needleman Culture Copy Share Image
What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but… — Jacob Needleman Each day 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… — Jacob Needleman Elements Copy Share Image
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth. — Jacob Needleman Fundamentals Copy Share Image
If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest… — Jacob Needleman Art Copy Share Image
Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed—an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly… — Jacob Needleman Materialistic Copy Share Image
Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and… — Jacob Needleman Class 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… — Jacob Needleman Dog 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… — Jacob Needleman Awakening 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… — Jacob Needleman Great ideas 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… — Jacob Needleman Asks Copy Share Image
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a… — Jacob Needleman Comprehension Copy Share Image
This "new" idea of God proposes that all the characteristics traditionally attributed to the purely external God are, in an important sense,… — Jacob Needleman Consciousness 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… — Jacob Needleman Causes 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… — Jacob Needleman Believe Copy Share Image
Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the… — Jacob Needleman Answers 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… — Jacob Needleman Aspect 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… — Jacob Needleman Buddhism Copy Share Image
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman Book 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… — Jacob Needleman Approach 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… — Jacob Needleman Astronomy Copy Share Image
“What an abundance of leisure the person gains who is not looking over at what his neighbor is saying, doing, or thinking,… — Jacob Needleman Finish line Copy Share Image
The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones. — Jacob Needleman Inspirational Copy Share Image
When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction. — Jacob Needleman Civilization Copy Share Image
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would… — Jacob Needleman Capacity Copy Share Image
Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and… — Jacob Needleman Challenges Copy Share Image
To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes… — Jacob Needleman Action Copy Share Image
Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive… — Jacob Needleman Buddhism Copy Share Image
What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within… — Jacob Needleman Abundance Copy Share Image
“The struggle to exist, to not disappear in this moment, is the advancing root of the struggle to exist throughout the whole… — Jacob Needleman Adversity Copy Share Image
And, as soon as possible, be on the lookout for someone whose whole manner of speaking and being makes, as it were,… — Jacob Needleman Genuine self 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… — Jacob Needleman Capable Copy Share Image
The work of cultivating experiences called "peak experiences" or "mystic moments" or "breakthroughs" until they become more accessible is part of the… — Jacob Needleman Breakthrough Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Christian Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman Emotional Copy Share Image
The differences between religions are only differences involving the pathways that lead toward the practice of directly experiencing higher levels of perception… — Jacob Needleman Buddhism Copy Share Image