Adversity Quote by Jacob Needleman

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

— Jacob Needleman

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

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

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

— Jacob Needleman

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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