part two of Love Story An incredible tale, at first glance — tragic, but in the final analysis — redeemed. Quite simply, Shalom, with all his study of the sublime, could not perceive the very sublime that sat before him in the form of his own dau ...
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Love Story: To See with God’s Eyes: Marc Gafni
Listen to this story of perception. The Malach was in search of a wife. They called him the Malach, the Angel, for his appearance was so stunning, his wisdom so immeasurable, he seemed a divine presence among common men. Word spread throughout the sh ...
On In-laws and Love
Posted by Gafni Assistant Marc is teaching this weekend with the iEvolve team, a weekend on the Integral Journey of Love. We wish them all a great weekend of growth and community. On In-laws and Love In the end we all want so desperately, so deserved ...
Shut Eyes: Marc Gafni
posted by Dr. Gafni Assistant Shut Eyes We get tired for all sorts of good reasons. There is much we should not have to see in this world. To protect ourselves from the pain we sort of let our eyes drift shut. We become only semi-conscious and this i ...
A Lovers Story: Part One: Marc Gafni
Trailing Clouds of Glory A number of years ago, I was teaching at a spiritual retreat center in Upstate Ny and was in the midst of a wonderful, yet not easy, couple of days. Teaching was beautiful. Yet I was also in the midst of what call a “deepen ...
What we know is less then what we love: Marc Gafni
“Love is perception” is to wordy a sentence. It has one word too many. The truth is, quite simply – Love Is. For Love has really been here all the time. Love is the infinite pulsating erotic energy of life and goodness that is the fabric of ...
Little Prince and Love: Part Two: Marc Gafni
The little prince intuitively understands that love is about Eros. He also knows deep down that someday he must return to his rose. He does not now when or how so he says to the fox, “I will tame you but know that someday I will have to go away and ...
The Little Prince and Love:Part One: Marc Gafni
The Little Prince: To Tame Remember The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? There’s that wonderful line: “All that is essential is invisible to the eye.” I read it the first time in my late teens. I fell in love with it then and every ...
The Lovers Prayer: marc gafni
When something is far from you, you have to open your eyes really wide to see it. As it gets closer you squint your eyes; when it gets really really close, you close your eyes. Closing eyes is when we see way beyond seeing. Close and Close are the sa ...
Harold and Maude: Love and Perception: Marc Gafni
Inside, Insight Plato thus echoes biblical myth when he says that the “deepest insight springs from love.” Love is all about insight — in-sight. The ability to see in, to the inside of the inside — to the Holy of Holies that is your lover. Er ...
Love is a Soul Print Perception: Marc Gafni
Love is a Soul Print Perception. This is the journey from loneliness to loving. Our soul print is the DNA of our soul. All those irreplaceable fully special pieces that make up in unique combination the woven fabric of our individual stories. All of ...
Love is a Soul Print Perception: Marc Gafni
Soul Print Lovers Love is perception of the inside of our beloved. Of their face, of their divine point, of their soul print. Soul Print is the infinitely unique essence of the beloved. A soul print, you may remember from our last journey together, i ...
Love is To see with God’s Eyes: Marc Gafni
DH Lawrence: What’s the good of man Unless there’s a glimpse of a God in him And what’s the good of woman Unless she’s a glimpse of a Goddess of some sort That is precisely the point! To love is to perceive the God and Goddess in the other. T ...
Gorgeous Lovin: Love and Perception: Marc Gafni
posted by Gafni assistant Love is a perception of the full divine wonder that is your beloved. It is like Dante’s description of his first sighting of Beatrice, “Something like the glory of God walking towards him.” Or for those of us who don� ...
Weddings, Brides and Grooms: Part Two: Marc Gafni
Cont’d Deeper still, we become revealers of the divine, in each other.153 God sees God. “All love is the love of God.” Recanati, Renaissance mystic For those that still doubt that perception can create love, picture for a moment the most se ...