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 ...
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One Hundred Plus One by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Uncertainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. One Hundred Plus One The Talmud has a famous comment about study: “eino domeh mi shelomed meah pa’am lemi shelomed meah vahad paam.â ...
Certainty and Holographic Oneness as Spiritual Orientations by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. R. Nachman is drawing on Biblical mysticism, which understands God’s presence in the world through the model of the sefirot, the framewo ...
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 ...
Holy of Holies: I Receive Your Name
“It is a time to fix divinity. To create God. God is created by revealing the infinite divine in every person. God’s name is emptied when people live without having their names recognized; without being called by name. So the wisdom masters d ...
Holy of Holies: Moving from Nothing to Something — Your Creative Invitation
From Your Unique Self by Dr. Marc Gafni. Submitted by Adael Bullock. The creative process that mysteriously moves from nothing to something is the God-impulse. To live as your Unique Self means to align yourself with that process, with the ecstatic e ...
Wisdom for your Week: Marc Gafni and Rob McNamara in Dialogue on Unique Self
In the dialogue linked here, thought-leaders Marc Gafni and Rob McNamara discuss the overlapping topic areas in their recent books, Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment and Strength to Awaken/The Elegant Self. They discuss… ...
Daily Wisdom: Enlightenment of Fullness – Yetzir and Yetzirah, Part II
In this second installment in a three-part essay series, excerpted from the long version of Soul Prints, Dr. Marc Gafni writes that we can transform and raise our passion and artistic creativity into a powerful drive for the sensual and the holy, re ...
Wisdom for your Week: Divine Tears
Dr. Marc reminds us here that “in the inner space between the contradictions—that is where God lives.” And he narrates further that the Talmud, in the Tractate Hagigah, states about this: “That is in the inner house. That is in the outer hous ...
Daily Wisdom: Ego Story or Unique Self Story Reloaded — Ego and Unique Self Distinction #25
For the conclusion of our series on the distinctions between Unique Self and Ego, it remains to be said: It is time to put it all to work in our daily lives, in our personal Unique Self stories… Distinction #25: Ego Story or Unique Self Story Reloa ...
From the Holy of Holies: Love is Impossible to Avoid
This quote is from Your Unique Self by Dr. Marc Gafni: “In every single moment, aware of it or not, you are drenched in the kosmic love that animates the kosmos, and which is alive in and as all that is. Every single corner of you is loved an ...