A boy walks into a school and kills twenty-seven people. For no reason. Most of the children between age five and ten. We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to a world of outrageous pain is outrageous love. We need to become outrag ...
Archive for the ‘Eros-Ethics-Meaning’ Category
Listen to “The Weekend of Loving Outrageously”
Recently I gave a presentation at a CWS event in connection with Shalom Mountain. John Tarcza tells us that a “wild idea started to stir and evolve uncontrollably” in him while editing audio recordings from the weekend. He combined a few ...
Daily Wisdom: On the refusal to love
Today’s Daily Wisdom post at the Spirit’s Next Move blog: This spiritual law of the universe plays itself out in many hidden ways which you need to recognize if you truly want to return to love. I want to outline for you areas where, in o ...
The two kinds of pseudo-victims (Daily Wisdom post)
Is there such a thing as a real victim? Yes, but there are also pretenders. Here’s a relevant passage from my forthcoming book, The Dance of Tears: The pseudo-victim has genuine options which she refuses to action; she refuses to turn fate into ...
Tzimtzum: Love implies freedom and responsibility
The ability to know and not use the knowledge. To give while giving up control. The greatest expression of divine self-limitation allows us our ability to choose, even as we choose against God. As the Hebrew mystics write so beautifully, “even ...
Daily Wisdom: God accepts all offerings in love
“God accepts all offerings in love.” Your Unique Self Marc Gafni www.marcgafni.com ...
Yearning and Each Other’s Story
We yearn — in our deepest hearts — not to take but to give, and in that giving to deeply receive. Sexuality is the model for this, because there one single act contains within it both giving and receiving. The same is true, however, in all of our ...
The Seven Levels of Certainty and Uncertainty
By Marc Gafni The following are notes from Marc Gafni’s dharma talk given in March 2012 at Shalom Mountain Wisdom School, where Gafni serves as the World Spirituality Teacher in Residence. Introduction The seven levels of certainty and uncertai ...
Daily Wisdom Post: The Lover’s Art of Attention
So far, the two major qualities of the erotic lover have been perception and giving. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Love is as Love Does
Loving and giving are inextricably bound up. The great medieval philosopher Maimonides teaches that to love God is to know the divine in both world and self. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self
It is through the consistent commitment to the growth of the other expressed through regular and spontaneous acts of giving that you become a lover. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: You-nified
As we have said, the model for being an erotic lover – in all facets of our existence – is the sexual. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: In Ecstacy
The perception of falling in love is but one expression, however of a broader kind, of perception. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Arousal from Above
Love is almost always proceeded by an act of will. We do not fall in love unless we decide to fall in love. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: The Stones Will Sparkle
Now let me share with you something truly beautiful. It is a sort of Hebrew mystic expansion of Traherne’s moment of rapture. It is one of my favorite stories. ...