Archive for 2012

Daily Wisdom Post: Murmur

Posted on: June 2nd, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

If I listen to the murmuring of my soul, I am in effect listening to the murmuring of the sacred God. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Inside, Insight

Posted on: May 21st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Love is all about insight--in-sight. It is the ability to see in, to the inside of the inside, to the Holy of Holies that is your lover. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Journey to Love

Posted on: May 21st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

We are on a journey to Love. For as the Zohar writes, ‘All the Paths (Shilin) lead to the Temple of Love.’ Wherever you are, wherever you are standing or kneeling or crouching — the place where you are is on your path to Love.’ ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Heart Love

Posted on: May 21st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In reaching for the awakening of love, we do well to bear in mind the teaching of mystical master Menachem Mendel of Kutz. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Great Dancer

Posted on: May 21st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The truly great dancer - like all lovers- flows with the fullness of being. She trusts the universe. She knows she will always fall right so she allows herself to fall into the erotic rhythm of life. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: God in the First Person

Posted on: May 21st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Thus, God in the first person according to the Hebrew wisdom masters is realized not through generalized meditation which effaces one's unique perspective, as is usually thought to be the case. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: God seeing God

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

All lovers are revealers of the Divine in each other. God seeing God. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Music of the Temple

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

One of the places where we overcome alienation and step inside to an act of surrender is the sacred realm of music. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Shechina is the feminine Divine

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Her name means Indwelling Presence, "the one who dwells in you." She is presence, poetry, passion. She is the sustaining God force that runs through and provides a womb for the world. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Evolutionary Love

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The Eros of evolution dances up the evolutionary spiral to higher and higher levels of complexity, and consciousness emerges from the evolutionary soup. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value

Posted on: May 1st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Before beginning our journey, however, it may be of value for the reader to have at least a very bare outline of the three reasons I hold uncertainty to be ethically and spiritually essential. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Teshuva and the Spiritual Time Machines, Part 4

Posted on: April 30th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In our previous 3 posts we introduced a provocative Hebrew wisdom masters koan, "Great is teshuva, for in it intentional sins become great merits." ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Teshuva

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In our previous post we introduced a provocative Hebrew wisdom masters koan, "Great is teshuva, for in it intentional sins become great merits. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Spiritual Time Machines

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The most potent expression of the healing power of time circle consciousness is the mystical idea of teshuva, which is a word we have encountered before. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Body and Soul

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The body leads to the soul, and the soul leads back to the body. “When I look at the I of my body I find the I of my soul. When I look at the I of my soul I find the I of God.” The Sufis have a wonderful saying–“Say your prais ...