Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music. Marc Gafni More Quotes by Marc Gafni More Quotes From Marc Gafni Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality. Marc Gafni receiving giving reality Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to share our story with a significant other. For the spiritual elite, the receiving of our own story - and the knowing that it is an integral part of the larger story of All-That-Is - is enough. But for most human beings, loneliness is transcended through contact with another person. Marc Gafni loneliness spiritual moving Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do through me? Marc Gafni ego fighting doe We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love. Marc Gafni consciousness evolution needs The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness. Marc Gafni imagination religious letting-go We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love. Marc Gafni response pain world We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. Marc Gafni passionate civilization needs Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together. Marc Gafni strange together love-is Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the Marc Gafni passionate natural joy
