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Daily Wisdom Post: God in the First Person

Posted on: May 21st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Thus, God in the first person according to the Hebrew wisdom masters is realized not through generalized meditation which effaces one's unique perspective, as is usually thought to be the case. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: God seeing God

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

All lovers are revealers of the Divine in each other. God seeing God. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Music of the Temple

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

One of the places where we overcome alienation and step inside to an act of surrender is the sacred realm of music. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Shechina is the feminine Divine

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

Her name means Indwelling Presence, "the one who dwells in you." She is presence, poetry, passion. She is the sustaining God force that runs through and provides a womb for the world. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Evolutionary Love

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

The Eros of evolution dances up the evolutionary spiral to higher and higher levels of complexity, and consciousness emerges from the evolutionary soup. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value

Posted on: May 1st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Before beginning our journey, however, it may be of value for the reader to have at least a very bare outline of the three reasons I hold uncertainty to be ethically and spiritually essential. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Teshuva and the Spiritual Time Machines, Part 4

Posted on: April 30th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In our previous 3 posts we introduced a provocative Hebrew wisdom masters koan, "Great is teshuva, for in it intentional sins become great merits." ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Teshuva

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In our previous post we introduced a provocative Hebrew wisdom masters koan, "Great is teshuva, for in it intentional sins become great merits. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Spiritual Time Machines

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The most potent expression of the healing power of time circle consciousness is the mystical idea of teshuva, which is a word we have encountered before. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Body and Soul

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The body leads to the soul, and the soul leads back to the body. “When I look at the I of my body I find the I of my soul. When I look at the I of my soul I find the I of God.” The Sufis have a wonderful saying–“Say your prais ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Enlightenment is Sanity

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

When we live on an Earth in which there’s enough food and resources to feed us all five times over, and 20 million children die of starvation every year, and we’re talking about being sane? ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Looking for your Face

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

From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Living as Love Beyond the Small Self

Posted on: April 7th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

I have this great joy when I know that I have done the right thing ... ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Name

Posted on: April 7th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Anyplace where you are regarded only as a function, where your name is not known and honored, you are a slave. ...

Daily Wisdom Post, The Puzzle Piece

Posted on: April 3rd, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Your Unique Self is radically singular, gorgeous, and special in the world. But it is even more then that. Your Unique Self is a puzzle piece that is utterly necessary to complete a much larger puzzle. ...