“Reality placed sexuality at the center of your existence, not as a cosmic tease, but as a cosmic invitation to a users guide to the universe, that contains in it all of the wisdom, all of the power, all of the intelligence, all of the strategy ...
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From the Holy of Holies: Kosmic Sensitivity and Dissolving the Layers
Transcribed by Adael Bullock, Holy of Holies, Private Session, October, 2013 *** Marc – So I am sensitive, I am the dynamic of kosmic sensitivity but then I have taken in this kind of infinite pain, every ripple, and I do not want to live with ...
From the Holy of Holies: The Pain of Intimacy
From Shalom Mountain Wisdom School teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni. Transcribed by Adael Bullock. Divinity is not only the infinity of power; divinity is the infinity of pain. It is the infinity of tears. Divinity at its core is the infinity of intima ...
Enlightenment of Fullness: The Great Mystery of Longing and the Tears of Union
From “The Path of Yearning” by Dr. Marc Gafni (Parabola Magazine, Summer 2006). In the world of Chassidut, all service begins with longing. But the Chassidim understood the great mystery of longing: that in relationship to God and to the ...
Certainty: A Song of Longing
The tale below told about Master Levi Isaac of Berdichev appears in Dr. Marc Gafni’s volume Certainty, a companion to the book Uncertainty, neither of which have yet been published in English.* The tale also appears in the audio course The E ...
Holy of Holies: On Identity
“The unfolding of the universe entails full divine loving presence. The divine perspective changes to include human beings. It is an intimate relation of shared identity. We participate in God and God participates in us. The great mystery of re ...
Holy of Holies: Self-Love is Self-Perception
“Of course, to remind another of their full beauty you have to be fully aware of your own. The Baal Shem Tov has a wonderful teaching on the biblical mandate “love your neighbor as you love yourself.” First it is a statement of ...
A Personal Invitation from Sally Kempton and Marc Gafni
Please join Sally Kempton and Marc Gafni at Esalen, October 18-20 for a weekend experience of Evolutionary Love Practice.What does it take to live your life in love? What does it mean to be lived as love? In just a few weeks on October 18-20, ...
Wisdom for your Week: A Gift from the Summer Festival of Love at Venwoude
The second annual Mystery School of Love was a success. More than 150 people came to celebrate with us this year’s theme: “Reclaiming Eros.” Many participants were here with us last year and were excited to be here again! To give you a little t ...
Wisdom for your Week: A Conversation with John Mackey and Marc Gafni — Topic 4: Love
In this week’s video Wisdom Post on the Center for World Spirituality website, Marc Gafni, author of Your Unique Self, and John Mackey, co-author of Conscious Capitalism, revisit the moment of their first meeting when John made a lasting impression ...
Evolving Complexity Equals Evolving Love
Excerpted from Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment by Dr. Marc Gafni From quarks to atoms to cells to molecules, onward and upward Teilhard de Chardin, Abraham Kook, and many other evolutionary mystics point out that complexi ...
Loving the Essence of Other Beings
We are challenged to expand the Love list in our lives to authentically embrace the many people we meet, bringing our Unique Self to each encounter. “Anyplace where you are regarded only as a function, where your name is not known and honored, ...
Love is Your Birthright
by Marc Gafni Love between people, at its core, is not an emotion. Love between people, at its core, is a perception. Love is a Unique Selfperception. The emotion is a direct result of the perception. To be a lover is to have eyes to see. Love percei ...
What It Means to Be a Lover … from God’s Eyes
By Marc Gafni Note: The following article appeared in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Common Ground Magazine. The true nature of your values is always revealed in death. In eulogies, both in what is spoken and unspoken, there is something of ...
Aftertaste: A Pointing Out Instruction
By Marc Gafni The following text is a transcript of a short video, part of “Awakening to Your Unique Self,” originally published in May 2010. (Silence.) So that’s how a pointing out instruction works. If you feel into the silence, point ...