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 and heart. And then, little by little, try to see if that person can be of real help on the way to genuine self-knowledge and insight about what God is and is not. In this realm, more than any other even, the paradoxical marriage of both openness and scepticism is essential.
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.
- 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
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…
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…
The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones. - Jacob Needleman
The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.
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.
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
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…
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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