Archive for the ‘Blog-Series: Falling in Love’ Category

Falling in Love: Part Fifteen: Marc Gafni

Posted on: February 6th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

Hitting Ground The only problem with falling in love, or so it would seem, is that we are never able to keep falling: eventually we always hit the ground. Much like the initial core certainty of parental love, romantic love is often lost and needs to ...

Falling in Love: Part Fourteen: Marc Gafni

Posted on: February 5th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

So the baby and the child and then the teenager get stuck behind these walls that we have come to call ego. In fact, as a society, we support and prop up these walls with phrases like “healthy ego,” “strength,” and the like, but, despite the ...

Falling in Love: Part Thirteen: Marc Gafni

Posted on: February 4th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

We all know the throbbing raw pain which we call loneliness. We feel essentially disconnected — our very essence is misunderstood. Misunderstood We call this misunderstanding loneliness. Loneliness is, on one level, the inability to share my soul p ...

Falling in Love: Part Twelve: Marc Gafni

Posted on: February 3rd, 2009 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

Before Boundaries Maternal love is the movement from onement to separation. Romantic love is the move from separation to onement. -Erich Fromm ‘The Sane Society’ What is the inside of the falling in love experience? In the first months of life, t ...

Falling in Love: Part Eleven: Marc Gafni

Posted on: February 2nd, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

As in Sex, so in Love In both love and sex, this is the necessary and elegant erotic pattern. It is enormously important to fall in love. It is a true erotic perception. Everything it teaches us is true. And it is enormously important to fall out of ...

Falling in Love: Part Ten: Marc Gafni

Posted on: February 1st, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Falling in love is not only purposeful, it also invests us with a sense of intention, meaning and energy. The love fall breaks the alienation of cosmic loneliness in our hearts. It ends our isolation and breathes us full of inspiration. Falling in lo ...

Falling in Love: Section Nine: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 31st, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

posted by Marc Gafni assistant Sudden Stunning Significance A few years ago, I saw a wonderfully long, obscure film by Claude Lelouche. Though it never explicitly mentioned it, it was fully a film about falling in love. We followed three generations ...

Falling in Love: Part Eight: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 30th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

Okay – now we will unpack together the stages of falling in love… The Fall “Each Note” Advice doesn’t help lovers They’re not the kind of mountain stream You can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t know What the drunk is ...

Falling in Love: Part Seven: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 29th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Like all the paths of love and eros, it is modeled in the sexual. In the sexual — the time of strong attraction — all other issues recede and the beloved is seen as infinitely desirable. The drive towards union is strong and for a short time Unio ...

Falling in Love: Part Six: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 28th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Eventually we fall out of love and realize that we were totally blind — how could we not have seen this or that!? What hoodwinked fools we were! It is for this reason that most books on the subject actually suggest that falling in love has nothing ...

Falling in Love: Part Five: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 27th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Okay..in the last two blogs I got a bit ahead of myself so with your permission I want to retrace our steps and unfold this falling in love mystery step by gentle step. Okay, ready to go? Here is the next step! Agatha Christie, after marrying Sir Max ...

Falling in Love: Part Four: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 26th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

What happens when you fall in love? There is one particular moment when we yearn for nothing, when friends and systems of relationship are unnecessary, when parents are forgotten and the need for food, sleep and self-examination flies out of the wind ...

Falling in Love: Part Four: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 25th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Before we really get deep into the falling in love conversation – I could not resist a word from Rumi… gorgeous day to all of you lovers … “Each Note” Advice doesn’t help lovers They’re not the kind of mountain stream You ca ...

Falling in Love: Part Three: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 24th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Agatha Christie, after marrying Sir Max Mallowan, a well-known archaeologist, gave this pithy advise to her gender, “All women should marry archaeologists — as you get older, they invariably become more and more interested in you.” It all sound ...

Falling in Love: Part Two: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 24th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Love is an erotic perception. That’s a Copernican revolution in the way we understand loving. It means that love does not have to fade away after the intial flush of excitement wears off. Since love is a perception of the soul print in the other, i ...