marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com AFTERTASTE: Now if we are courageous enough to walk one step further, we will see that sex follows the same exact formula. Every human being engages in two very different forms o ...
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Why Do I Eat Food?: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com There’s a wonderful short prayer in the Hebrew liturgy which is recited after eating. Strangely the prayer begins with a unique formula which appears nowhere else in the ...
Pseudo Eros and Gossip: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Kabbalah scholars point out that one of the defining characteristic of the Zohar mystics is that illumination happened not in solitary retreat but in groups engaged in sac ...
Pseudo Eros: Chocolate-Covered Raisins: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments at info@marcgafni.com The same thing happens with food everyday without our realizing it. Our bodies can be our most blatant teachers. Our bodies are talking, but are we listening? On a religious fast ...
The motivation for Gossip: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Kabbalah scholars point out that one of the defining characteristic of the Zohar mystics is that illumination happened not in solitary retreat but in groups engaged in sacred con ...
Pseudo Eros, Gossip and Emptiness: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com At our spiritual retreats, which are not geared towards drug or alcohol problems, people were thrown for a little bit of a loop by the opening talk which I gave at Orienta ...
We are all Addicts: Until we are Not: Failure of Eros: Post Four: A story: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comment at info@marcgafni.com An image from the Galilee. At the spiritual retreats which I led in Israel for many years, which were not geared towards drug or alcohol problems, people were thrown for a ...
Addiction: A failure of Eros: Post Three: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com ADDICTION: A FAILURE OF EROS Addiction is, at its root, the inability to stay in the emptiness. So we rush to fill the emptiness with whatever gives us the quickest hit of ...
Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions Part 2
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In our society which sadly defines human beings as consumers and not lovers, denial is the primary strategy for coping with emptiness. We are sold ful-fill-ment at every t ...
Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions
Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Eros is about feeling the fullness of being, the opposite of emptiness. Every human being has met emptiness; that feeling we ex ...