"We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless……" — Jacob Needleman
"We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning."
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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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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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If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to…
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