by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his book Uncertainty, which will be re-released as part of the two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. There Is No Such Thing as Wrestling at a Distance: To Struggle Is to Embrace Rashi explains “Vayeavek” the Hebrew ...
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Enlightenment of Fullness: The Great Mystery of Longing and the Tears of Union
From “The Path of Yearning” by Dr. Marc Gafni (Parabola Magazine, Summer 2006). In the world of Chassidut, all service begins with longing. But the Chassidim understood the great mystery of longing: that in relationship to God and to the ...
One Hundred Plus One by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Uncertainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. One Hundred Plus One The Talmud has a famous comment about study: “eino domeh mi shelomed meah pa’am lemi shelomed meah vahad paam.â ...
Certainty and Holographic Oneness as Spiritual Orientations by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. R. Nachman is drawing on Biblical mysticism, which understands God’s presence in the world through the model of the sefirot, the framewo ...
Wisdom for your Week: A Gift from the Summer Festival of Love at Venwoude
The second annual Mystery School of Love was a success. More than 150 people came to celebrate with us this year’s theme: “Reclaiming Eros.” Many participants were here with us last year and were excited to be here again! To give you a little t ...
Wisdom for your Week: Divine Tears
Dr. Marc reminds us here that “in the inner space between the contradictions—that is where God lives.” And he narrates further that the Talmud, in the Tractate Hagigah, states about this: “That is in the inner house. That is in the outer hous ...
“Open, Not Closed” Meditation
This week’s audio wisdom meditation with Dr. Marc Gafni comes from Week 7 of the Awakening Your Unique Self 10-Week Telecourse, themed “Unique Self: A Paradigm Shift in Loving.” This beautiful meditation, created by Dr. Marc for the ...
Unique Self Courses A Success!
Dear friends, Love is all around, and this newsletter is dedicated to all those wondrous ways that love shows up in the world and in our work at the Center for World Spirituality. 3,000 people take Unique Self Mini-Course: We are delighted to announc ...
A Conversation with Marc Gafni and John Mackey on Shadow
In this last video of our seven-part dialogue series, our two authors (Your Unique Self and Conscious Capitalism) discuss the issue of shadow — both in the context of our personal life as well as in the context of business. In our modern world the ...
A Conversation with Marc Gafni and John Mackey on Jealousy and Envy
In the sixth video of the seven-part dialogue series, Marc Gafni (author of Your Unique Self) and John Mackey (co-author with Raj Sisodia of Conscious Capitalism) define and discuss jealousy, malice, resentment, and envy in the framework of bu ...
Wisdom for your Week: A Conversation with John Mackey and Marc Gafni — Topic 5: Obligation
Listen to two leaders of the Center for World Spirituality, John Mackey, Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods Market, as well as the Co-Chair of the Center for World Spirituality Board of Trustees and co-author of Conscious Capitalism, and Marc Gafni, dir ...
Wisdom for your Week: A Conversation with John Mackey and Marc Gafni — Topic 4: Love
In this week’s video Wisdom Post on the Center for World Spirituality website, Marc Gafni, author of Your Unique Self, and John Mackey, co-author of Conscious Capitalism, revisit the moment of their first meeting when John made a lasting impression ...
What It Means to Be a Lover … from God’s Eyes
By Marc Gafni Note: The following article appeared in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Common Ground Magazine. The true nature of your values is always revealed in death. In eulogies, both in what is spoken and unspoken, there is something of ...
Explaining the difficulty of evolving a World Spirituality
Note: This work is a transcript of a video produced in 2010 as part of the World Spirituality video series. By Marc Gafni From Marc’s dialogue with Michael Murphy, founder of Esalen Institute: Why hasn’t a World Spirituality emerged? What I’ve ...
What is a Unique Self relationship?
Published today on Spirit’s Next Move: There’s something I call Unique Self evolutionary relationships, what we called in the Soul Prints book “soul print encounters”. In a genuine Unique Self encounter, we each hold a piece of the otherâ ...