The little prince intuitively understands that love is about Eros. He also knows deep down that someday he must return to his rose. He does not now when or how so he says to the fox, “I will tame you but know that someday I will have to go away and ...
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The Little Prince and Love:Part One: Marc Gafni
The Little Prince: To Tame Remember The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? There’s that wonderful line: “All that is essential is invisible to the eye.” I read it the first time in my late teens. I fell in love with it then and every ...
The Lovers Prayer: marc gafni
When something is far from you, you have to open your eyes really wide to see it. As it gets closer you squint your eyes; when it gets really really close, you close your eyes. Closing eyes is when we see way beyond seeing. Close and Close are the sa ...
The Spiritual Practice of Unifying the Name: Marc Gafni
The central mantra of biblical practice, or of the biblical spirit, is a daily meditation on the unity of God. Its single requirement is that it be recited with hands covering eyes. Because it is only with eyes closed that we no longer see the world ...
Harold and Maude: Love and Perception: Marc Gafni
Inside, Insight Plato thus echoes biblical myth when he says that the “deepest insight springs from love.” Love is all about insight — in-sight. The ability to see in, to the inside of the inside — to the Holy of Holies that is your lover. Er ...
Love is a Soul Print Perception: Marc Gafni
Love is a Soul Print Perception. This is the journey from loneliness to loving. Our soul print is the DNA of our soul. All those irreplaceable fully special pieces that make up in unique combination the woven fabric of our individual stories. All of ...
Love is a Soul Print Perception: Marc Gafni
Soul Print Lovers Love is perception of the inside of our beloved. Of their face, of their divine point, of their soul print. Soul Print is the infinitely unique essence of the beloved. A soul print, you may remember from our last journey together, i ...
Love is To see with God’s Eyes: Marc Gafni
DH Lawrence: What’s the good of man Unless there’s a glimpse of a God in him And what’s the good of woman Unless she’s a glimpse of a Goddess of some sort That is precisely the point! To love is to perceive the God and Goddess in the other. T ...
Gorgeous Lovin: Love and Perception: Marc Gafni
posted by Gafni assistant Love is a perception of the full divine wonder that is your beloved. It is like Dante’s description of his first sighting of Beatrice, “Something like the glory of God walking towards him.” Or for those of us who don ...
Weddings, Brides and Grooms: Part Two: Marc Gafni
Cont’d Deeper still, we become revealers of the divine, in each other.153 God sees God. “All love is the love of God.” Recanati, Renaissance mystic For those that still doubt that perception can create love, picture for a moment the most se ...
Weddings, Brides and Grooms: Marc Gafni
Dedicated to Groom Jim and Bride Sonia Sonia, newly wed this past time, may you always be bride and groom and to Bruce and Mary married for years modeling for us all how to be bride and groom every day What a Weddings Should Be.. Revealers of the Div ...
The Secret is in the Eyes: Marc Gafni
In Honor of White Umbrella: The artist’s eye, the lover’s eye, is unfurnished. It is not blinded with the opaque trappings of pre-conceptions and mis-conceptions. —- It is for this reason that we often equate the lover and the poet. Indeed ...
Love is not Blind: Marc Gafni
“Love is ‘the great art of the spirit.’” Art is where each magnified detail is part of a harmonized whole. An artist is a master at perceiving. What is so special about the artist’s eye? It is always open to the New, the never before notice ...
Is Love Blind? Marc Gafni
Is love Blind? Love to a fault is always blind Always is to a joy inclined Lawless winged and unconfined And breaks the chain from every mind William Blake Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other w ...
Love is NOT an Emotion: Marc Gafni
In this understanding, love is not merely an emotion. It is at its core a perception, which then brings in its wake a gorgeous and pleasurable emotion. Again, the model is the sexual. Just as sexual perception produces in its wake the pleasing sweetn ...