The Kabbalists takes the mandate of love implicit in self perception — one step further. I need to understand that not only am I a part of God but I am also a partner to God. Renaissance mystic Judah Loew of Prague, whose transmission I was honored ...
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Evil is the part of us that perceives without love: Marc Gafni
The Original Misperception The original misperception, writes Israel, Master of the Name, is to see yourself as separate from God. That is original sin. Evil, in biblical myth, is called “Amalek.” Again, mystical gematria points us to a deeper tr ...
What is Intimacy: Marc Gafni
Without a doubt, love’s sister is always intimacy. An erotic inside word, intimacy. Although it speaks to our knower selves, evoking deep levels of intuitive recognition, we are often hard pressed to define it. And while a definition could never ex ...
A Little Bit of Light Dispels Alot of Darkness: Self Love or Narcissism: Marc Gafni
Happy Chanukah: Self-Love is Not Narcissism (I am God ) The master Menachem Mendel of Kutzk said that a decent person never deceives others. I would add that a special person never deceives himself. To say that you are anything less than you at your ...
You At Your Best: The Story of Louis: Marc Gafni
posted by Gafni assistant During my first year as a Rabbi in Palm Beach, Florida, there was one Bar-Mitzvah boy I will never forget. Louis was his name, and he was the first child to be Bar-Mitzvahed during my tenure. He and his parents came to my of ...
Who You Really Are Is You at Your Best: Marc Gafni
Hey Friends, Gifts for you today. A new Dialogue up with Dharma – Kosmic Love Brother, Stuart Davis. See home page. And watch these days for dharma comments on our blog posts from the insightful and alive Mare and hopefully soon from the wise n ...
The Three Faces of You: Marc Gafni
So what does it mean? Self love means the perception and identification of the true self. Which raised the essential human question – Who is the real self? In searching “Who am I? Am I the public me that goes to work and office parties; or pe ...
Self Love is not Narcissism: Marc Gafni
Below is some notes on a talk I gave at a wonderful teaching center yesterday in Carmel Ca., the great town where Clint Eastwood was mayor for a time. There were about five hundred gorgeous and holy people there gathered by their wonderful liberated ...
You Are Beautiful: Marc Gafni
“You are Beautiful!” Before Soul Prints came out, I was at a New York publishing house, presenting the book proposal. Half a dozen professionals were seated around a stretch limo type of an oak table looking very official, sharp, literarily daunt ...
Our list of lovers is way too short: Marc Gafni
Thou Art Commanded Thinking that being a lover is necessarily sexual is to exile the erotic – in the sense we have been using it- eros = holiness= enlightenment = aliveness = shekinah… it so exile the erotic into the sexual. The sexual ho ...
In the Presence of Your Friend- You Already Are: Marc Gafni
The Seer of Lublin, 19th century biblical mystic, said it like this: “There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary friend who sees you as you appear to be. An extra-ordinary friend sees you for what you can be. But in the presence of ...
Love is the Perception Identification Dance: Marc Gafni
Liquid Love —To see the Future in the Now There are then two distinct components in our biblical myth definition of loving. To love means to perceive the infinite specialness in an other; to reveal the divine in the other; to see in the other what ...
Wonder of Wonder Miracle of Miracles: The Miracle of We: Marc Gafni
Posted by Gafni Assistant: This post begins with the same material with a teaching of Dr. Marc’s, the same teaching I posted last night, with several new paragraphs marked as such which conclude the teaching. The mystical manuscripts tell us, ...
The Miracle of Love: Part Two: Marc Gafni
posted by Gafni assistant The mystical tradition tells us that even before the creation of the world, God ‘created’ miracle of splitting the Red Sea. All miracles are built into nature. God — before the creation of the world- went to the as of ...