22 Quotes by Jacob Needleman

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

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

We lose our time because we lose our attention.

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.

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

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

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.

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

Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not made use of it. By now you ought to realize what cosmos you are apart of, and what divine administrator you owe your existence to, and that an end to your time here has been marked out, and if you do not use this time for clearing the clouds from your mind, it will be gone and so will you.