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cgerrish's review
5.0
Loved Needleman's "Money and the Meaning of Life" years ago ... pleased to re-connect with him around deeper conversations about time, life and meaning. This is NOT a book about tips, tools and techniques for managing time ... those practical self-help guides that my Super-Organized Self first chose to move away from "busy". Maybe its age, maybe observing the foolishness of "controlling/managing" time, maybe just a growing desire to wrestle with bigger questions, but Needleman's thoughts really resonated. Time and the Soul's philosophical view of perennial wisdom has earned a place on my limited "keeper" bookshelf.
"This is the real significance of our problem with time. It is a crisis of meaning. What has disappeared is meaningful time. It is not technology or the accelerating influence of money; it is not global capitalism that is responsible for the time famine. The root of our modern problem with time is neither technological, sociological, economic nor psychological. It is metaphysical. It is a question of the meaning of human life itself." (p.20)
"This is the real significance of our problem with time. It is a crisis of meaning. What has disappeared is meaningful time. It is not technology or the accelerating influence of money; it is not global capitalism that is responsible for the time famine. The root of our modern problem with time is neither technological, sociological, economic nor psychological. It is metaphysical. It is a question of the meaning of human life itself." (p.20)
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