By Marc Gafni To move towards a politics of love you do not need to found a new political party or national social movement. You need just a small group of people with shared vision who are willing to stand together. As anthropologist Margaret Meade ...
Archive for the ‘Blog – Spiritually Incorrect’ Category
What percentage of the population is enlightened?
According to integral philosopher Ken Wilber, spiritual masters have estimated that the number is in the ballpark of that’s 0.0000001 of the total population. Has there ever been a time when the democratization of enlightenment is so essential? ...
More in Love than Ever
At the moment of the big bang, the original light of infinite goodness is shattered. It is shattered in the way that the heart of the lover is shattered: by opening in love to the Beloved. It is shattered by an infinite desire to move from Bein ...
Your Unique Letter, Your Unique Story
In the mythic teaching of ancient Hebrew mysticism, the calligraphy of your Unique Letter in the cosmic scroll is determined by the particular angle at which you were situated in relationship to the revelation at Mount Sinai. Sinai, in the great Hebr ...
Redeem suffering
How does your Unique Christ Self redeem suffering? When the who of suffering becomes clear, then you can bear almost any how. When you realize that the particular pain you feel is an intrinsic part of your passion and presence, part of your path ...
Daily Wisdom: You are Special! You are Unique!
Moving beyond the obsession with the personal helps you to wake up. You evolve from separate self to True Self. You begin to realize that you are in fact not an isolated or separate part, but rather you are part of the whole, of All-That-Is. Once, ho ...
Unique Self Specialness
Unique Self specialness is an authentic realization of overpowering joy. I am special, and so are you. Each of us has a Unique Self. We are not equally talented, wise, sensual, or compassionate. But paradoxically, we are all special, each in our own ...
Tzimtzum: Love implies freedom and responsibility
The ability to know and not use the knowledge. To give while giving up control. The greatest expression of divine self-limitation allows us our ability to choose, even as we choose against God. As the Hebrew mystics write so beautifully, “even ...
Daily Wisdom: To Greet With God’s Name
The world over, God’s name is evoked in greetings. The Spanish hello – ‘Olah’ – originated in Arab Spain from the term “O’Allah” — Allah of course being the Arab appellation of God. In Bavarian German they say ‘Gruss G ...
The Daily Wisdom: The Crying of Ishmael
God responds to the crying of Ishmael and not the crying of Hagar. Ishmael represents the crying of the baby with which all life begins. Why does the baby cry? The baby is hungry, the baby is afraid, the baby is vulnerable, the baby is lonely. The ba ...
Daily Wisdom: A Name with the power to Heal
Why do we respond to death not with an exclamation of comfort, but with the Kaddish — a seemingly theological statement, “Magnified and Exalted is his great name”? The answer holds one of the most sacred mysteries of love rooted in the se ...
Daily Wisdom: God accepts all offerings in love
“God accepts all offerings in love.” Your Unique Self Marc Gafni www.marcgafni.com ...
Daily Wisdom: Life’s House of Mirrors
In order to respond to the voices that call us to meaning we need to first experience the world as meaningful. Read more… ...
Yearning and Each Other’s Story
We yearn — in our deepest hearts — not to take but to give, and in that giving to deeply receive. Sexuality is the model for this, because there one single act contains within it both giving and receiving. The same is true, however, in all of our ...
The Essential I (By Dr. Marc Gafni)
By Dr. Marc Gafni In this excerpt from Reclaiming Rosh Hashanah: The Dance of Tears (forthcoming), Dr. Marc Gafni explores the Garden of Eden biblical story and Abraham Kook’s teaching on the “inner essential I,” through which we come to u ...