Artists create from their own shadows. The kabbalists teach that we are all artists of our own lives, engaged in the ultimate sacred act of self-creation. Nietzsche correctly intuited a core biblical idea when he said, “The artist becomes the work ...
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The Way of the Dragon: Part Three in Series: Light From Darkness: Marc Gafni
How fascinating that the Sanctuary, said to be the source of all the G-dly light in the world, should have been designed by Bezalel, whose name means “in the shadow of G-d.” For nearly two thousand years, this was considered too dangerous a path ...
Being Your Own Lover: Marc Gafni
Being Your Own Lover Your commitment to giving for the sake of growth on the lovers path cannot be limited to the growth of your beloved. You must be your own lover. That means you must be willing to invest in yourself. If you do not give yourself gi ...
Marriage: A Path with a Heart: Marc Gafni
The best framework I know for spiritual growth is a long-term committed relationship of which the archetype is clearly marriage. This view of marriage is enormously liberating. We need to let go of the old views of marriage in which it is either a ha ...
Thirty-One Leading Spiritual Teachers Form Integral Life Spiritual Center
Dear friends, For many, the vision of integral spirituality is one of a world in which humanity can finally, after many millennia, come to appreciate and embody the mystery of reality in a powerful, compassionate and sophisticated way that honors the ...
Notes From A Lover – Dr. Marc Gafni
I have written before of the beauty of Eros–the divine life force–and how our sexuality models the greater movement of Eros in our lives. By Eros, I mean the fullness of presence, inner space, participating in the yearning force of being and the ...
Giving in Love: Story of the Holy Snuff Box: Part Twenty: Marc Gafni
A Shamanic Story Story of the Snuff Box The story of the holy snuff box. Here is the story as I heard it. Everybody knows that Holy Beggars hold the world together. Thus would one modern master introduce the following sacred story. Never, never pass ...
I Just Want To Say It Again: Let us Create a Circle of Yes: Marc Gafni
Dedicated to Lady Mary as she enters retreat… This is yesterday’s post; and I am posting it again and again and again …all week…. I ask YOU, with all my heart – and the heart of all being – to read it – take ...
Say Yes: Give Yourself in Love: Marc Gafni
posted by Marc Gafni assistant My heart is open. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!! YES! I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” ~Oriah ...
Giving in Love: Part Nineteen: Marc Gafni
Give To Them a Story For those, who even after the last few blogs, are still unsatisfied and find it too painful to give in an undiscriminating way, I ask a simple question: how would you like to be a person asking for money on the street? Much as we ...
Giving in Love: Part Eighteen: Marc Gafni
On Being Charitable and Being Choosy… “One Second,” I say before my tourist friend can run away, “Let me tell you a story of the Great Master Zusia of Onipol.” Zusia had a disciple who would visit him occasionally and donate funds towar ...
Giving in Love: Part Seventeen: Marc Gafni
There is a teaching that if you have a hundred different coins, you should give them to a hundred different people. Even though the money will have little real life impact on the recipient’s economic reality, the very act of giving to every hand yo ...
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Sixteen
posted by Gafni assistant In Jerusalem, my home, the streets are filled with beggars, men and women who for all sorts of different reasons make their living by asking passers-by to “share the wealth.” In almost any other city in the world, these ...
Giving in Love: Part Fifteen: Marc Gafni
One of the most counter intuitive dictums of Hebrew wisdom reads “Greater is one who does out of command —(metzuveh) than one who does even though he is not commanded (Eino metzuveh).” Logically, the opposite should be true. Is not the one who ...