The unfolding of the spirit, as are all great truths, is em-bodied in the human form. All you need do is look at the revolutions of change you undergo physically in a lifetime. The fetus with its tail becomes the scrawny screaming infant becomes the ...
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A Failure in Love is a Failure in Imagination: Marc Gafni
Writing a book is painful. Words, said Timothy Leary, are a freezing of reality. Before I put the chapter down on paper it is infinite, liquid-like and emerging. The second I pick one of the infinite possible turns of phrase — it becomes frozen. Fo ...
I Love Him For the Man He Almost Is: Marc Gafni
To love a person is both to perceive and identify a person — not only with the best of who they are, but the best of who they could become. We are not human beings; we are human becomings. In fact, the original Hebrew the words “I am” do not ex ...
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 to see the Future in the Now: Marc Gafni
Candace is about to marry Tom. Our vision is limited. We only see the “regular” Tom. The regular is unchanging and commonplace. The divine is always growing and unique. Part of perception identification requires the lover to be a visionary. To to ...
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 ...
You never looked more beautiful: Marc Gafni
There is astory of perception which comes from the war scarred world of Europe in the 1940’s . A couple in cracow is engaged to be married. Both of them beautiful. But then Hitler came and they were torn apart and each taken to the horrors of Ausch ...
Wonder of Wonder Miracles of Miracles: Part Three: Marc Gafni
Last post in three part series Yes, we all know that we have to ‘know ourselves’ — to perceive our soul print and be true to its imprint. Yet, there are some times when we have to be willing to be something completely opposite to our nature. Fo ...
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 ...
Match Maker Match Maker make me a Match: Marc Gafni
A Biblical Myth of Perception Identification The mystical manuscripts tell us, “Forty days before a soul is born into the world, the name of its soul mate is called out in heaven” The soul is then given a glimpse of its destined one. It see its b ...
The Miracle of Love: Marc Gafni
Wonder of Wonder Miracles of Miracles Have any of your friends every got engaged and the response of the gang was something like, “I can’t believe it — SHE is going to marry …HIM. Candice.. is going to marry …Tom??!!” We do not understand ...
Why Do I Love my Children
The beloved not only perceives the divine, the soul print of her lover, she identifies him with that divinity. She understands that as his essence. She sees and identifies her beloved with his infinite specialness. This notion of perception identific ...
Love is Perception- Identification: Marc Gafni
love is perception identification complex This notion of perception identification is most clear in reference to parents and children. You love your kids. The neighbor’s kids however — well, they are just so incredibly rambunctious, annoying and ...
Love is a Perception Identification Complex: Marc Gafni
A Perception-Identification Complex Even when we say that love is perception, we do not mean it is merely perception. It is, as we have implicitly seen in our discussion till now, a Perception-Identification Complex. And this is not Complex as in Oed ...