by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self Your ego always seeks the “special relationship”–in the egoic sense–to cover the pain of your emptiness, and thinks the “special relationship” is better than all the rest of your relationships. The ...
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Unique Self in the World — “Slight Inklings: First Steps Towards a Celebration of Unique Self in Hospice”
It is a special privilege and delight this week to bring you an audio essay on Unique Self in hospice by Rev. John Hughes, entitled “Slight Inklings: First Steps Towards a Celebration of Unique Self in Hospice.” John Hughes wrote this ess ...
“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 ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #20 — Past or Present
From Your Unique Self by Dr. Marc Gafni. The ego lives in the past, thinking it is the present. Therefore, the ego unconsciously confuses past with present. The ego is unable to create intimacy, which means meeting each other in the fullness of the p ...
A Deeper Click on Recent Events: The Exciting Happenings at the Center for World Spirituality
This past weekend (June 6-9, 2013) Dr. Marc was honored and delighted to participate in some wonderful happenings: John Mackey and Marc Gafni in Dialogue: Dialogue and Interview Host Michael Ellsberg In New York, there was an awesome event organized ...
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 ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #19: Paradox or Splitting
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self The ego is always splitting. It always sees dualities, and it cannot hold paradox or complexity. For the ego, others are either enemies or friends. Actions are either good or bad. The separate-self ego has a ve ...
Thought Leader Dialogue between Richard Barrett and Marc Gafni: The Unique Self and the Organizational Success: The Path of Organizational Transformation
In the second dialogue of this 3-part series, our two leaders, Richard Barrett and Marc Gafni, speak about how the teachings on soul and Unique Self can be applied to organizations and lead to more success of the organizations as well as the individu ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #18: Responsibility or Excuse
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self The ego very rarely takes substantive responsibility. When the ego attempts to take responsibility, it creates a painful, virtually unbearable contraction in the self. So the ego becomes the master of the excus ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #17: Justice or Injustice
by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. The ego is angry at what is done to it. It very rarely feels the same outrage at what is done to someone else. The Unique Self is not merely outraged against injustice done to its own person; it is hurt and outr ...
Every Moment is a Canvas: Music and Eros
from The Erotic and the Holy by Marc Gafni Whenever we keep eros confined to one narrow frame of being, while de-eroticzing the rest of the picture — the Shechina remains in exile. Sex is only one of the places where we exile the erotic. There is a ...
Distinction between Unique Self and Ego #16: Yes or No
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self. Your ego is always contracting and saying, “No.” Even when your ego says, “Yes,” it is only because it is afraid to say, “No.” Your Unique Self is always expanding and saying , “Yes.” Even when ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #15: Bigger or Smaller
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self When you are in ego, people feel smaller when you walk into the room. They feel invisible before you. The result is that they feel depleted and in danger. When you are in your Unique Self, people feel bigger wh ...
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 ...
Betrayal or Loyalty — Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #13
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self The ego betrays. The Unique Self is loyal. When you are in your ego, and things go bad, you are willing–in your fear–to betray virtually anyone. Your ego is easily identifiable by the shallowness of its int ...