Jacob Needleman Quotes

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

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

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

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

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 the future.

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 the writings of Paul Brunton.

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, used by what we do?

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.