The Unfinished Question: Jacob Needleman and the Search for Meaning
Jacob Needleman spent his life tracing this path, not as a guru with all the answers, but as a fellow wanderer, pointing toward the questions that matter. And in this, he offers us not a conclusion, but an invitation—to pause, to listen, and to let meaning find us in the spaces where we are most fully alive. Image: Barnes and Noble There are questions that haunt the human spirit, questions that refuse to be silenced by the noise of the world. The search for meaning is one of them—perhaps the most fundamental of all. It moves beneath the surface of our days like an underground river, shaping the terrain of our choices, our relationships, and our inner lives. Few modern thinkers have engaged this question with the depth and tenderness of philosopher Jacob Needleman, who spent his life inviting us to look beyond the thin veil of the immediate and into the deeper structures of our being. Needleman did not offer easy answers. Like Socrates, he understood that a truly lived question is far m...
