"If one steps out on a starry night……" — 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 or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?"
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20 Quotes by Jacob Needleman
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What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief…
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To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real…
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We lose our time because we lose our attention
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Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern…
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Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is…
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We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
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Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.
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The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.
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Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to…
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We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.
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What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our…
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To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an…
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