[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com When my life was devastated with personal tragedy two years ago, I made a commitment―together with a close friend―not to “do anything.” I wi ...
Archive for the ‘Eros-Ethics-Meaning’ Category
The Wounds of Love
[english] As I move forward, dear friends, I’d like to share a few final reflections about the last two years and the explosion that led up to it. For the past two years, I have not been able to go more than a short time without being overwhelm ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Eight: Dance Me to the End of Love – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Seven Dance Me to the End of Love Life is a choice. You can remain a bee trapped in a bottle and everyone―except yourself―will be ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Seven – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Six The Path of Love One cannot be told that life is worthwhile; one must experience the erotic love of living first hand. Yet so few people hav ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Six: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com We abuse the earth and allow twenty million people to die of hunger or related diseases every year. The simple and essential cause is a lack of Eros. We desperately nee ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Five – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Five Because our society has so lost touch with the erotic, we identify it with the sexual. But Eros is so much more. To dance with the Shechina ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Four – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Four Erotic Living The Dancing Master There is a wonderful story of Eros and love that hints at many of the truths we will unpack in our journey ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Three – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Three The Great Dancer The truly great dancer―like all lovers―flows with the fullness of being. She trusts the universe. She knows ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Two – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Two About a week ago, I posted the first in a series of about a hundred posts on Eros and Holiness. The feedback was large and wonderful and ver ...
The Wounds of Love: Part Eight – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Wounds of Love: Part Eight I am willing now to feel hurt. The deepest hurt for us all is the recognition of having hurt others. Even if unconsciously. We hurt each ...
The Wounds of Love: Part Seven – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Wounds of Love: Part Seven “In all of their pain, I am in pain…” cries out the Hebrew mystic Isaiah, and we feel her caress. There is a deep heart ...
The Wounds of Love: Part Six – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On The Wounds of Love: Part Six The Second Step Surrendering so deeply and unconditionally into the pain reveals another radical truth. Everyone is present within it. W ...
The Wounds of Love: Part Five – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part Five All the great traditions of spirit, in their own way, show us that everything is one thing. Everything is one beautiful, radical, unkno ...
On the Wounds of Love: Part Four – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part Four We long for certainty. But are we ever really certain of the correctness of our ideas about how the world should be? In moments of hurt ...
On the Wounds of Love: Part Three – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part Three continued from Blog Post Nine Yes, all beings are hurt. We all carry some untransformed wound. But in the end we all must choose wheth ...