Archive for the ‘Eros-Ethics-Meaning’ Category

Falling in Love: Part Four: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 26th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

What happens when you fall in love? There is one particular moment when we yearn for nothing, when friends and systems of relationship are unnecessary, when parents are forgotten and the need for food, sleep and self-examination flies out of the wind ...

Falling in Love: Part Four: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 25th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Before we really get deep into the falling in love conversation – I could not resist a word from Rumi… gorgeous day to all of you lovers … “Each Note” Advice doesn’t help lovers They’re not the kind of mountain stream You ca ...

Falling in Love: Part Three: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 24th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Agatha Christie, after marrying Sir Max Mallowan, a well-known archaeologist, gave this pithy advise to her gender, “All women should marry archaeologists — as you get older, they invariably become more and more interested in you.” It all sound ...

Falling in Love: Part Two: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 24th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Love is an erotic perception. That’s a Copernican revolution in the way we understand loving. It means that love does not have to fade away after the intial flush of excitement wears off. Since love is a perception of the soul print in the other, i ...

Falling in Love: Part One: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 23rd, 2009 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

Falling in Love’s – Famous first encounters: G-d built the rib that he took from the man into a woman, and He brought her to the man. — Genesis 2:22-23 When Rebecca looked up and saw Isaac, She fell from the camel — Genesis 25:64 Rachel a ...

Marc Gafni: Tears of Angels: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 21st, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

New Post begins in the middle of post below … I reposted some of the last two days so that you have the whole picture go to asterisk below if you want to only read today’s post. To retell Abraham’s tale So let us now help Isaac let go o ...

Tears of Angels: Part Seven: The Hoffman Process: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 15th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 3 Comments

Dedicated to the Hoffman Process: Anger or Intimacy? Now if you were Isaac, you might be pretty mad at Abraham for creating such complexity and even pain in your life. And it’s true that we are part of a generation with an enormous amount of anger ...

Tears of Angels: Part Six: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 14th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Love is perception. Isaac cannot see — his perception is blurred. We can do many things in life with our love faculty of perception impaired. We can build a business, partner with a reasonable degree of success and navigate much of life successfull ...

Tears of Angels: Part Five: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 13th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Unblocking the wells, unbottling the tears, can be a dangerous task. The question is, has Isaac left his genie bottled up too long? When the waters break forth, will they turn to deluge or blessing? The fairy tale talks of the danger of waiting too l ...

Tears of Angels: Part Two: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 11th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

The way that deepening happens in Biblical myth study is almost always by posing a question. Sometimes even a seemingly technical or structural question can fling the door open to the next layer of meaning. So it is in this discussion. ”Why is it,â ...

Big Heart: Tears of Angels: Part One: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 9th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 3 Comments

Blessings and open heart to you holy friends. I want to share this deep teaching from the inside of the inside with you in several parts, maybe seven or eight different installments. May it re-open all of our hearts, for who among us has not closed o ...

“Open Your Eyes”, God Shouts, “I want to See”: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 8th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

“Open your eyes,” God shouts: “I want to see!” “Prick up your ears, I want to hear! March in the front ranks: you are my head!” Nikos Kazantzakis posted on marcgafni.com share comments below or on MarcGafni.com marc gafni   ...

The Stones Will Sparkle: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 7th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 3 Comments

A lover’s moment of clear perception – seeing with God’s eyes – is recorded by the Mystic Philosopher Traherne and by the Hebrew mystic disciples of Safed in the Galilee over 200 years ago. “The dust and the stones of the st ...

Moving from Fear to Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 5th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Love, Fear and … Mystic philosopher Isaac of Homil radically interprets the biblical phrase, “He saw the picture of God” to mean, not that Moses has a mystical vision of divinity and sees a picture of God, but that, far more powerfully, Moses s ...

Perception is Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 4th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the original words themselves. The key word describing the spiritual work in the ...