The third century Babylonian myth masters say it like this: “There are three names in a person’s life. The name his mother and father called him, the name his friends call him, and the name he owns himself.” ...
Archive for 2012
Daily Wisdom Post, Aleph
The third stage to which Hebrew mysticism invites us--each in our own way--is the experience of unity consciousness as the guiding principle of our lives. This is the final stage on our journey. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Radical love …
Love is a radical redrawing of boundaries and complete revisioning of the whole notion of self-interest. A revisioning is, of course, a deepening of perception. ...
Free Feeling: Using Emotions for Liberation, by Sally Kempton
Practice can change your relationship to emotions, so that instead of being swamped by certain feeling states, you can hold them, contain them, see into their essence, and ultimately, use emotions in the service of your liberation.Many years ago, I w ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Festival of Seeing
In the ecstasy of the festival the pilgrim reaches the consciousness which moves him to cry out, "If I am here all is here." ...
Daily Wisdom Post, A Light Motif
The core intuition of all the great systems of the spirit is that love and eros are captured best by the image of light. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Looking for your Face
From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it... ...
Resonance and Dissonance Between the World’s Great Religions, by Sam Alexander
Religion. The very word strikes fear in the hearts of your average citizen...or boredom, or maybe confusion. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Creative Gaze
The Kabbalists were often referred to as mistaklim or chozim, roughly translated as the Looker or Seers. To get a handle on what that might mean, just imagine how we feel when someone looks at us with erotic, loving eyes. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, As You Love Yourself
Of course, to remind another of their full beauty you have to be fully aware of your own. The Baal Shem Tov has a wonderful teaching on the biblical mandate "love your neighbor as you love yourself." ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Soul Print Hints
A word in the Zohar used for those souls who are living their story is lechisah, meaning "whisper." To live your story is to be able to hear the intimate whisper of divinity erotically caressing your life. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, To Greet with God’s Name
Calling out "the Name" is evoked the world over in greetings. The Spanish hello--hola--originated in Arab Spain from the term "O'Allah" -- Allah of course being the Arab appellation of God. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, To Receive…
The ultimate model for reality is the divine. The most central teaching of the Kabbalah is that God’s highest gift to world is to receive the human being as a partner in the perfection of the world. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Ten Sefirot
Each one of these ten levels of divine presence represents another dimension of God in our world. They are referred to as the Ten Sefirot. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Unique Self, Unique Obligation
To live your Unique Self and offer your Unique Gifts is to align yourself with the evolutionary impulse and fulfill your evolutionary obligation. ...