marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Five Because our society has so lost touch with the erotic, we identify it with the sexual. But Eros is so much more. To dance with the Shechina ...
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The Wounds of Love: Part Eight – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Wounds of Love: Part Eight I am willing now to feel hurt. The deepest hurt for us all is the recognition of having hurt others. Even if unconsciously. We hurt each ...
The Wounds of Love: Part Seven – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Wounds of Love: Part Seven “In all of their pain, I am in pain…” cries out the Hebrew mystic Isaiah, and we feel her caress. There is a deep heart ...
The Wounds of Love: Part Six – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On The Wounds of Love: Part Six The Second Step Surrendering so deeply and unconditionally into the pain reveals another radical truth. Everyone is present within it. W ...
The Wounds of Love: Part Five – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part Five All the great traditions of spirit, in their own way, show us that everything is one thing. Everything is one beautiful, radical, unkno ...
On the Wounds of Love: Part Four – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part Four We long for certainty. But are we ever really certain of the correctness of our ideas about how the world should be? In moments of hurt ...
On the Wounds of Love: Part Three – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part Three continued from Blog Post Nine Yes, all beings are hurt. We all carry some untransformed wound. But in the end we all must choose wheth ...
On the Wounds of Love: Part Two – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Good evening. It is close to midnight here in Salt Lake. Just spent a wonderful evening with five goddesses. A group of friends, all powerful feminine spiritual teacher ...
On the Wounds of Love: Part One – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part One It is five in the afternoon in Salt Lake City. It has been a hard day. I sent a letter of apology to someone I really loved. It was sent ...
Imagination as the Next Step in Healing Pain – by Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com It is Sunday morning. I am at home in Salt Lake City. I just woke up; said the morning blessing on the study of dharma and torah. I am sharing with you some initial mus ...
Where was God in the Tsunami?
by Marc Gafni A very good question to which we will return; first, however, we need to realize that in many ways this question is a cover up for what might be the more essential question: Where was man in the Tsunami? We have spent trillions of dolla ...
Author’s Preface to A Certain Spirit
The following articles are from the second book Marc Gafni published in 2000 on the topic Certainty and Uncertainty. The book is called Vadai in Hebrew and A Certain Spirit in English. The core theme of the book on certainty is a re-understanding of ...