Jacob Needleman Quotes

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

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

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#3. This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they speak of a social order that is possible on the basis of an ordering within the individual self.

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#4. 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 also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?

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#5. 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 materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul.

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#6. To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty - while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.

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

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

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#9. 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 other problem of human existence. And it haunts the spiritual search as well.

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

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#11. If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?

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#12. the human body is also an organised system, it lives as long as it keeps organised, and death is only the effect of disorganisation, And how can a society of blind people organise itself in order to survive, By organising itself, to organise oneself is, in a way, to begin to have eyes

Jose Saramago

#13. 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.

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#14. A game, yes. But I like it. In this game, there are no losers.

J. Kenner

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

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#16. Course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children. So

Lemony Snicket

#17. We lose our time because we lose our attention

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

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#19. Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?"

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#20. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.

M.L. Stedman

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

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#22. 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?

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#23. I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

Marilyn Manson

#24. Her only worry sometimes was that she didn't look different enough, that people mistook her for part of a crowd. She'd see a girl in patterned Doc Martens or with a dyed red pixie cut and wish she had the balls.

Mark Haddon

#25. The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

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#26. 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.

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

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