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The whole/part, autonomy/communion paradox is finally clarified

Posted on: October 9th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In the teaching of Unique Self, the whole/part, autonomy/communion paradox is finally clarified.  The Unique Self teaching allows us to create right relationship between whole and part, autonomy and communion.  This right relationship is the absolu ...

Moving Towards a Politics of Love

Posted on: October 8th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

By Marc Gafni To move towards a politics of love you do not need to found a new political party or national social movement. You need just a small group of people with shared vision who are willing to stand together. As anthropologist Margaret Meade ...

What percentage of the population is enlightened?

Posted on: October 5th, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

According to integral philosopher Ken Wilber, spiritual masters have estimated that the number is in the ballpark of  that’s 0.0000001 of the total population. Has there ever been a time when the democratization of enlightenment is so essential? ...

More in Love than Ever

Posted on: October 4th, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

At the moment of the big bang, the original light of infinite goodness is shattered.  It is shattered in the way that the heart of the lover is shattered:  by opening in love to the Beloved.  It is shattered by an infinite desire to move from Bein ...

Your Unique Letter, Your Unique Story

Posted on: October 2nd, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

In the mythic teaching of ancient Hebrew mysticism, the calligraphy of your Unique Letter in the cosmic scroll is determined by the particular angle at which you were situated in relationship to the revelation at Mount Sinai. Sinai, in the great Hebr ...

Redeem suffering

Posted on: October 1st, 2012 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

How does your Unique Christ Self redeem suffering? When the who of suffering becomes clear, then you can bear almost any how.  When you realize that the particular pain you feel is an intrinsic part of your passion and presence, part of your path ...

Daily Wisdom: You are Special! You are Unique!

Posted on: September 28th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Moving beyond the obsession with the personal helps you to wake up. You evolve from separate self to True Self. You begin to realize that you are in fact not an isolated or separate part, but rather you are part of the whole, of All-That-Is. Once, ho ...

Unique Self Specialness

Posted on: September 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Unique Self specialness is an authentic realization of overpowering joy. I am special, and so are you. Each of us has a Unique Self. We are not equally talented, wise, sensual, or compassionate. But paradoxically, we are all special, each in our own ...

Tzimtzum: Love implies freedom and responsibility

Posted on: September 24th, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

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: To Greet With God’s Name

Posted on: September 22nd, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

The world over, God’s name is evoked in greetings. The Spanish hello – ‘Olah’ – originated in Arab Spain from the term “O’Allah” — Allah of course being the Arab appellation of God. In Bavarian German they say ‘Gruss G ...

The Daily Wisdom: The Crying of Ishmael

Posted on: September 21st, 2012 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

God responds to the crying of Ishmael and not the crying of Hagar. Ishmael represents the crying of the baby with which all life begins. Why does the baby cry? The baby is hungry, the baby is afraid, the baby is vulnerable, the baby is lonely. The ba ...

Daily Wisdom: A Name with the power to Heal

Posted on: September 19th, 2012 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

 Why do we respond to death not with an exclamation of comfort, but with the Kaddish — a seemingly theological statement, “Magnified and Exalted is his great name”? The answer holds one of the most sacred mysteries of love rooted in the se ...

Daily Wisdom: God accepts all offerings in love

Posted on: September 18th, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

“God accepts all offerings in love.” Your Unique Self Marc Gafni www.marcgafni.com ...

Daily Wisdom: Life’s House of Mirrors

Posted on: September 17th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In order to respond to the voices that call us to meaning we need to first experience the world as meaningful. Read more… ...

Yearning and Each Other’s Story

Posted on: September 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

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 ...