“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 inquiry-of questioning, of opening-opens something in the human being which has not been touched in our culture. Everybody who is human has in themselves the potential of passionate inquiry after truth, and that's the transforming force.” HumansRealCultureForceProcessHuman BeingsAnswersMoralPassionateOpeningExplanationTouchedQuestioningInquiryTransforming Author:Jacob Needleman
“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.” TryingMindHeartRealHelpingInsightOpennessHeart And MindParadoxicalScepticism Author:Jacob Needleman
“To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.” LoveRealElementsNeighborUnfoldingNature Love Author:Jacob Needleman
“Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'.” PeopleMenMeanRealSelfProcessResultsModernMaterialsDevelopmentHolyStriveDustBuddhistPsychicsSelf DevelopmentHoly BibleSamsara Author:Jacob Needleman
