Jacob Needleman Quotes

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• What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in…
• To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.
• We lose our time because we lose our attention
• Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their…
• 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…
• We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
• Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.
• The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.
• 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…
• We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.
• What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived,…
• To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is…
• If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of…
• Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed—an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic…
• To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.
• Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.
• Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.
• Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in…
• What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is…
• 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 or…

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