The beloved not only perceives the divine, the soul print of her lover, she identifies him with that divinity. She understands that as his essence. She sees and identifies her beloved with his infinite specialness. This notion of perception identific ...
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Love is Perception- Identification: Marc Gafni
love is perception identification complex This notion of perception identification is most clear in reference to parents and children. You love your kids. The neighborâs kids however â well, they are just so incredibly rambunctious, annoying and ...
Love is a Perception Identification Complex: Marc Gafni
A Perception-Identification Complex Even when we say that love is perception, we do not mean it is merely perception. It is, as we have implicitly seen in our discussion till now, a Perception-Identification Complex. And this is not Complex as in Oed ...
To Disclose the God in You: Marc Gafni
âIâ am God These love stories in my previous blogs are about what the Hindus called Bhakti, to truly see the other bathed in their divine radiance. âLove you neighbor as yourself,â cries out the biblical book of Leviticus. But loving your nei ...
Achieving Orbit
I heard this story from a man, who had heard it from his teacher spiritual minstrel and master Shlomo Carlebach, who had no doubt heard it from another master. You see, story telling is a central occupation of the wisdom master, for stories are the f ...
Love Story: Part Two :Marc Gafni
part two of Love Story An incredible tale, at first glance â tragic, but in the final analysis â redeemed. Quite simply, Shalom, with all his study of the sublime, could not perceive the very sublime that sat before him in the form of his own dau ...
Love Story: To See with God’s Eyes: Marc Gafni
Listen to this story of perception. The Malach was in search of a wife. They called him the Malach, the Angel, for his appearance was so stunning, his wisdom so immeasurable, he seemed a divine presence among common men. Word spread throughout the sh ...
On In-laws and Love
Posted by Gafni Assistant Marc is teaching this weekend with the iEvolve team, a weekend on the Integral Journey of Love. We wish them all a great weekend of growth and community. On In-laws and Love In the end we all want so desperately, so deserved ...
Shut Eyes: Marc Gafni
posted by Dr. Gafni Assistant Shut Eyes We get tired for all sorts of good reasons. There is much we should not have to see in this world. To protect ourselves from the pain we sort of let our eyes drift shut. We become only semi-conscious and this i ...
A Lovers Story: Part One: Marc Gafni
Trailing Clouds of Glory A number of years ago, I was teaching at a spiritual retreat center in Upstate Ny and was in the midst of a wonderful, yet not easy, couple of days. Teaching was beautiful. Yet I was also in the midst of what call a âdeepen ...
What we know is less then what we love: Marc Gafni
âLove is perceptionâ is to wordy a sentence. It has one word too many. The truth is, quite simply – Love Is. For Love has really been here all the time. Love is the infinite pulsating erotic energy of life and goodness that is the fabric of ...
Little Prince and Love: Part Two: Marc Gafni
The little prince intuitively understands that love is about Eros. He also knows deep down that someday he must return to his rose. He does not now when or how so he says to the fox, âI will tame you but know that someday I will have to go away and ...
The Little Prince and Love:Part One: Marc Gafni
The Little Prince: To Tame Remember The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂŠry? Thereâs that wonderful line: âAll that is essential is invisible to the eye.â I read it the first time in my late teens. I fell in love with it then and every ...
The Lovers Prayer: marc gafni
When something is far from you, you have to open your eyes really wide to see it. As it gets closer you squint your eyes; when it gets really really close, you close your eyes. Closing eyes is when we see way beyond seeing. Close and Close are the sa ...
The Spiritual Practice of Unifying the Name: Marc Gafni
The central mantra of biblical practice, or of the biblical spirit, is a daily meditation on the unity of God. Its single requirement is that it be recited with hands covering eyes. Because it is only with eyes closed that we no longer see the world ...