Falling in Love: Part Eleven: Marc Gafni
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 love. It too is true and teaches truth.
Falling in love is a true perception. It can even redeem us if we know how to use it. It can especially redeem us after we fall out of love!
In Hebrew mystical thinking, falling in love is a moment of divinity, a moment in which the uncertainty, contingency and alienation of living are transcended into something higher. The full flush of love is a provider of inner core certainty. True, it is not logical; it is not an intellectual explanation of reality. *“An intellectual doesn’t know what the drunk is feeling!” But experientially — through my flesh I vision God — it is an unadulterated dose of clarity and certainty. When you fall in love, God is opening all the doors for you.
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’
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