Two Offerings:
Isaac of Acre, 13th Century Kabbalist:
“Whoever has not Desired a Woman is like an Ass and even less than an Ass,
For it is from the Sexual that one Understands Divine Service.”
From Ikkyu, 14th century Zen Master:
With a young beauty, sporting in deep love play;
We sit in the pavilion, a pleasure girl and this
Zen Monk
Enraptured [...]
by Marc Gafni
This article, written in 2007, represents a small elaboration on my thinking in the book The Mystery of Love. There is much more to say―which I will do, God willing, in a full-length book―but for now this small offering will suffice.
Spiritually Incorrect
Our general way of thinking suggests that sexuality is the light and [...]
by Marc Gafni
There is so much we do to undermine the sustainability of love. There is so much we do to murder love. We limit love. We envision love in one mode, and any violation of that mode, which is really our desperate craving for egoic validation, we label abuse.
We have forgotten that love cannot [...]