Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In our society which sadly defines human beings as consumers and not lovers, denial is the primary strategy for coping with emptiness. We are sold ful-fill-ment at every t ...
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Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions
Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Eros is about feeling the fullness of being, the opposite of emptiness. Every human being has met emptiness; that feeling we ex ...
Marc Gafni – SUN AUG 17 – Part 2
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com To live erotically is to be fully present to each other’s richness, complexity and ultimate grandeur. It is to fully wait for the other to appear. The Shechina in the Te ...
Marc Gafni – SUN AUG 17
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com When I would lead prayers at our retreat center overlooking the Sea of Galilee in Israel, we often do a face-to-face prayer. In this prayer, people sit in twos and read Ps ...
The Second Face of Eros: Fullness of Presence – Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The second face of eros is the ‘fullness of presence’ . This is not a distinct and different quality but flows naturally and even overlaps with the erotic qualities of ...
Marc Gafni -RECAPITULATION
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Let us take a moment to see the full beauty of where we’ve gone on our journey thus far. Till now we have understood that the Temple is the archetype of eros. We have un ...
Marc Gafni – EROS: PLATO AND THE ZOHAR PART 2
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Kabala scholar Yehuda Libes reminds us of a third word. He suggests that the word Zohar, the name of the great magnum opus of Hebrew mysticism, is roughly synonymous with ...
Marc Gafni – Eros & Zohar — Expanding our Limited Vocabulary Part 1
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The word eros entered Western consciousness through Socrates’ best student. Plato, in his wonderful dialogue “The Symposium”, calls the inner state which we have bee ...
IF YOU CAN HEAR YOURSELF TALKING SIT DOWN – Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Teachers can take us home, but only if they teach from the inside. It is reported that Ziv Hirsch of Zhitomir, charismatic mystical master of the 19th century, would occas ...
Marc Gafni – Left Outside
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Much of modernity militates against the eros of being on the inside. Indeed, the whole psychological stance of fortifying the ego is about keeping people on the outside. O ...
Marc Gafni – The litmus of an erotic lover
The litmus of an erotic lover is this: Does this person lead you back to your inner self? Are you able to share with him or her your most vulnerable, fledgling, faltering dreams? Every person has a Holy of Holies which, in those most intimate of time ...
Marc Gafni – Coming Home
Once a year in a spine tingling mystery rite the priest would enter the Holy of Holies. On this day, every person was forgiven. On this day, every person was to re-experience themselves in the depths of their own true innocence. For on the inside we ...
Victim or Player: Marc Gafni
Victim or Player Auschwitz Birkenhau Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Share comments on info@marcgafni.com The dance of the subject and object, the movement between the two is the great and undulating dance of our lives. It is the perpetual dance b ...
Marc Gafni – GOD’S POETS
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In our deepest erotic longings, so many of us do want to be God’s poets, God’s prophets and priests. Yet we are ashamed to admit it —sometimes even to ourselves. We ...
Marc Gafni – Poetess, Prophetess and Priestess
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Eros is the birthright of everyman and everywoman. Though we may search long and hard for priests and prophets who can guide and counsel us, in the end we must return time ...