http://jacobneedleman.com/blog The official blog of Jacob Needleman Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have been speaking of “the teachings of wisdom” and we have been trying to see the work of love in the light of these teachings.  We have been trying to understand the work of love as the task of supporting each other’s search for the life ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=268 http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=266 And what we are seeking is a body, a life on earth, in which our actions and behavior serve the higher impulses and intentions, the higher feelings, that constitute the heart of true human virtue. We are not simply searching for an improved version of moralist automatism nor for childish ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=261 To us, the phrase "self-knowledge" means little more than "psychologizing" about ourselves; that is, obtaining emotionally stimulating opinions about ourselves, against the background of the view of human nature insinuated into us by our own abnormal social order. Or it means conceptual analysis, which cannot penetrate into our emotions and body ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=250 America – the physical, actual America that we see and live in – this America needs to be understood not as in itself sacred but as a privileged, temporary corner of “the world” where men and women are granted the liberty to search for truth and the life within. ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=242 The growing human being—child or adult—has need for ideas that nourish the search for Truth and the development of the Will to the Good, that nourish the sense of the sacred in nature and, above all, in ourselves. It may not be necessary for everyone to enter the path of ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=240 More and more, as I see it now, this heartless way of thinking about God and ultimate reality dominates the mind of the contemporary world.  For God or against God, “belief” or “atheism,” it makes no difference unless the inner yearning—or whatever we wish to call the cause and source ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=236 Introduction To think about God is to the human soul what breathing is to the human body. I say to think about God, not necessarily to believe in God—that may or may not come later. I say: to think about God. I clearly remember the moment something deep inside me started breathing ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=221 For nearly decades Jacob Needleman has confronted the central questions of our era in light of the vision that lies at the root of the world’s great spiritual traditions. Needleman’s work it takes topics that exist in disparate threads throughout our culture—new religions, esoteric Christianity, the founding mythos of America—and ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=181 Goodrich Lecture Indian Springs School Jacob Needleman January 22, 2004 THE ONE GREAT QUESTION I think I should start by saying what I think a philosopher is. As some of you probably know, it means a “lover of wisdom,” somebody who seeks wisdom, who searches for wisdom—in that sense of love as the deep desire ... http://jacobneedleman.com/blog/?p=179