Wounds of Love: Marc Gafni: Part Eight

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When my life was devastated with personal tragedy two years ago, I made a commitment―together with a close friend―not to “do anything.” I wished, as much as possible, to move from doing to being, from the ‘masculine’ mode to the ‘feminine’ mode. Not that one is higher or better, but because the taste for intense activity which had guided my life had become bitter. The universe had shattered me into being. So, the commitment was that I would not initiate contact for 18 months with anyone whom the Kosmos did not in some way invite me to contact. I would not initiate relationships. Only to those people with whom I had some sudden, new, and intense contact during the time immediately before the trauma would I reach out. My heart told me that these were the people who had been sent by the universe as my friends and guides. And that is how it was.

The Persian poet Hafiz guided me in that and in many other moments on this journey.

What is the difference
Between your experience of existence
And that of a saint

The Saint knows
That the Spiritual path
Is a sublime chess game with God

And that the Beloved
Has just made such a Fantastic Move

That the saint is now continually
Tripping over Joy
And bursting out in Laughter
And saying, “I surrender!”

Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think

You have a thousand serious moves.

posted by Marc Gafni

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