Eros seduces man toward evolution, toward greater consciousness. Love seduces man to love. Eros is the inner animating quality of the ecstatic evolutionary impulse of the Ground of Being, evolving toward the most aware and noble expression of itself. It is love persuading us to ever-deeper levels of love.
Marc Gafni
Your Unique Self
p. 135
“To really get the great esoteric teachings of one love, to know love as the strongest force in the Uni-verse, we first have to understand that love is not just a feeling. Rather, love is the motivating force driving and animating the entire Uni-verse. Love is not merely a human emotion. Love is both the currency of connection between human beings and the essential Eros that drives the evolutionary process as a whole. Love is the Eros of all relationship even as it is the very Eros of evolution itself. Personal and impersonal love are one. One Love. Evolutionary Love.”
Your Unique Self
Dr. Marc Gafni
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By Marc Gafni
From Your Unique Self:
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We are, in the words of Kabbalist Luria, “cut from the same cloth and hewn from the same quarry, even as we each have an utterly unique soul expression and soul destiny.”
The great Buddhist way of describing this is the story of the water and the wave:Two waves flowed toward shore. The larger wave was extremely depressed, while the small wave peacefully moved along.
“If you could see what I see from up here,” said the large wave to the small wave, “you would not be so happy.”
“What do you see?” asked the small wave.
“In not too long, we will crash into the shore, and that will be the end of us.”
“Oh, that,” said the small wave. “that’s OK.”
“What, are you crazy!?”
“I know a little secret that tells me that it’s OK,” said the small wave.
“Would you like me to share it with you?”
Our large-wave friend was both curious and suspicious:
“Will I have to pay a lot of money to learn it?” he asked.
“No, not at all.”
“Will I have to do zazen for thirty years in the lotus position?”
“No, not at all,” said the small wave.
“Really, the whole thing is only eight words.”
“Eight words!!! Then, tell me already!”
The small wave said, ever so gently, “You are not a wave. You are water.”
To which the Unique Self mystics add, “And you are also a Unique, beloved, and irreplaceable wave.”
Your Unique Self
Dr. Marc Gafni
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