Occupation: Philosopher Birth: October 6, 1934
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she begins identifying what one might called "philo….
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning..
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..
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God la….
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a consciou….
And, as soon as possible, be on the lookout for someone whose whole manner of speaking and being makes, as it were, a "sound" that draws your mind an….
The differences between religions are only differences involving the pathways that lead toward the practice of directly experiencing higher levels of….
This "new" idea of God proposes that all the characteristics traditionally attributed to the purely external God are, in an important sense, attribut….
Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of 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..
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to offer. At the….
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Ch….
Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nouris….
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth..
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 materiali….
For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evi….
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one..
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 result….
We lose our time because we lose our attention.
The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones..
The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any othe….