posted by Marc Gafni assistant Sudden Stunning Significance A few years ago, I saw a wonderfully long, obscure film by Claude Lelouche. Though it never explicitly mentioned it, it was fully a film about falling in love. We followed three generations through three hours of film, not quite sure where we were being led. All [...]
Falling in Love: Part Eight: Marc Gafni
Okay – now we will unpack together the stages of falling in love… The Fall “Each Note” Advice doesn’t help lovers They’re not the kind of mountain stream You can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t know What the drunk is feeling! Don’t try to figure What those lost inside love Will do next!… [...]
Feb 7th, 2009 – The Dance of Men and Women: Love Sex and God – With Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton
Sally Kempton is an Internationally acclaimed Spiritual Teacher, Yoga Journal Columnist and author of the much beloved work “The Heart of Meditation”.
Falling in Love: Part Seven: Marc Gafni
Like all the paths of love and eros, it is modeled in the sexual. In the sexual – the time of strong attraction – all other issues recede and the beloved is seen as infinitely desirable. The drive towards union is strong and for a short time Union is actually achieved. After fulfillment, however, both [...]
Feb 13-15, 2009 – “Sexuality, Spirituality, & Shadow: The Three S’s of Dynamic and Personal Evolution” – with Marc Gafni, Diane Musho Hamilton, & Natya Priya Sofia Diaz
Falling in Love: Part Six: Marc Gafni
Eventually we fall out of love and realize that we were totally blind – how could we not have seen this or that!? What hoodwinked fools we were! It is for this reason that most books on the subject actually suggest that falling in love has nothing to do with love. Indeed many wise teachers [...]
Feb 22-25, 2009 – “The Future of Eros” – Marc Gafni teaches a special offering at Dawn Manor
Dawn Manor is very excited to offer you a personal invitation to participate in a special offering: “The Future of Eros” with Marc Gafni on January 22-25, 2009. This initial offering will not be open to registration for the community at large, but will be by invitation only, as space is limited. During our time [...]
Falling in Love: Part Five: Marc Gafni
Okay..in the last two blogs I got a bit ahead of myself so with your permission I want to retrace our steps and unfold this falling in love mystery step by gentle step. Okay, ready to go? Here is the next step! Agatha Christie, after marrying Sir Max Mallowan, a well-known archaeologist, gave this pithy [...]
Affiliated New Thought Network Conference, March 23-27, 2009 with Keynote Address by Dr. Marc Gafni
Have you stood at the precipice of profound change in your life? As you stood there, did you reach for Spirit to support you? The times we live in today call for us all to take that Leap into the unknown of our quantum nature, to expand our faith and dive into the depths of [...]
March 7th – The Path of the Enlightened Lover: Men: Love, Sex, Shadow and Spirit – with Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton
Sally Kempton is an Internationally acclaimed Spiritual Teacher, Yoga Journal Columnist and author of the much beloved work “The Heart of Meditation”.
Falling in Love: Part Four: Marc Gafni
What happens when you fall in love? There is one particular moment when we yearn for nothing, when friends and systems of relationship are unnecessary, when parents are forgotten and the need for food, sleep and self-examination flies out of the window. This one moment of overarching certainty is when we fall in love. When [...]
Falling in Love: Part Four: Marc Gafni
Before we really get deep into the falling in love conversation – I could not resist a word from Rumi… gorgeous day to all of you lovers … “Each Note” Advice doesn’t help lovers They’re not the kind of mountain stream You can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t know What the drunk is [...]
Falling in Love: Part Three: Marc Gafni
Agatha Christie, after marrying Sir Max Mallowan, a well-known archaeologist, gave this pithy advise to her gender, “All women should marry archaeologists – as you get older, they invariably become more and more interested in you.” It all sounds wonderful except for one thing. It is so often not true. Remember, the worn expression “love [...]
April 6th – The Path of the Enlightened Lover: Women: Sex, Shadow and Spirit – with Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton
Sally Kempton is an Internationally acclaimed Spiritual Teacher, Yoga Journal Columnist and author of the much beloved work “The Heart of Meditation”.
Falling in Love: Part Two: Marc Gafni
Falling in Love Love is an erotic perception. That’s a Copernican revolution in the way we understand loving. It means that love does not have to fade away after the intial flush of excitement wears off. Since love is a perception of the soul print in the other, it is infinite. The soul print is [...]











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