Happy Chanukah: Self-Love is Not Narcissism (I am God ) The master Menachem Mendel of Kutzk said that a decent person never deceives others. I would add that a special person never deceives himself. To say that you are anything less than you at your ...
Archive for December, 2008
Open Your Eyes and Believe It, and It Will Be: Marc Gafni
posted by Marc Gafni assistant At a certain point in my life I realized I was meeting too many people who desperately wanted to be someone else. More then anything this makes me sad. I wanted a way beyond declamation to share with people the power of ...
You At Your Best: The Story of Louis: Marc Gafni
posted by Gafni assistant During my first year as a Rabbi in Palm Beach, Florida, there was one Bar-Mitzvah boy I will never forget. Louis was his name, and he was the first child to be Bar-Mitzvahed during my tenure. He and his parents came to my of ...
Who You Really Are Is You at Your Best: Marc Gafni
Hey Friends, Gifts for you today. A new Dialogue up with Dharma – Kosmic Love Brother, Stuart Davis. See home page. And watch these days for dharma comments on our blog posts from the insightful and alive Mare and hopefully soon from the wise n ...
The Three Faces of You: Marc Gafni
So what does it mean? Self love means the perception and identification of the true self. Which raised the essential human question – Who is the real self? In searching “Who am I? Am I the public me that goes to work and office parties; or pe ...
Self Love is a Shift in Perception: Marc Gafni
Hey Folks, some great comments on the last few blogs – total worth reading. Thanks Mare:) Self-love is a shift in perception in which you embrace — maybe for the first time — the full marvel of who and what you are. That is what it means to ...
Your Innocence is Never Lost: Marc Gafni
In your deepest nature you must know that you are the hero of your story. In your deepest nature you are love and grace and strength and splendor. Now you must decide to identify with your deepest nature. Do you focus on your innocence or your guilt? ...
Self Love is not Narcissism: Marc Gafni
Below is some notes on a talk I gave at a wonderful teaching center yesterday in Carmel Ca., the great town where Clint Eastwood was mayor for a time. There were about five hundred gorgeous and holy people there gathered by their wonderful liberated ...
My Parents said “I was so ugly”: Marc Gafni
Years back I gave a talk at a summer camp in one of the wealthier enclaves of Long Island. The kids in the camp were between ages 9 and 12. After my official talk, I had some extra time so I asked if I could perhaps have a casual talk to the kids alo ...
Parents, Children and Love: Marc Gafni
posted by Marc Gafni Assistant The parent’s ultimate mission is that the child knows — beyond a shadow of a doubt — that she is infinitely special; her ray of light is unique and precious to the planet. The parent needs to be a prism which refr ...
Parents and Children and Love: Marc Gafni
What to do which a child who has fallen under negative influence the parents asked Master Israel of Good Name. “Love him more” the master responded. Love is not an abstract emotion with which parents are automatically endowed upon the child’s b ...
Parents Love: Marc Gafni
Of course God did have partners involved in making His myriad master-pieces — God’s partners are Parents. “Three partners are their in creation”; read the wisdom texts, “mother father and God”. Our first lovers in this world are our paren ...
You Are Beautiful: Marc Gafni
“You are Beautiful!” Before Soul Prints came out, I was at a New York publishing house, presenting the book proposal. Half a dozen professionals were seated around a stretch limo type of an oak table looking very official, sharp, literarily daunt ...
Hidden Heroes: The Secret is in the Eyes: Marc Gafni
Hidden Saints There is a Kabbalistic tradition that the world rests on 36 hidden saints. They are the polished gemstones of God’s creation. Israel, Master of the Good Name, seemed always to be happening across their paths and so he indulged his dis ...