At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a human being is meant to be together with an equally tragic overestimation of what we human beings are capable of in our present everyday state of being. The intensity of the present confusion about the nature and existence of God is a symptom of this yearning within the whole of our modern culture.
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… - Jacob Needleman
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…
- Jacob Needleman
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one. - Jacob Needleman
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.
Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe happiness come… - 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 come…
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth. - Jacob Needleman
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.
The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones. - Jacob Needleman
The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.
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… - Jacob Needleman
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…
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it al… - 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 in our prison, or could it al…
We lose our time because we lose our attention - Jacob Needleman
We lose our time because we lose our attention
Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken. - Jacob Needleman
Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.
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