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 ...
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Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #12: Victim or Player
In your ego, you cling to every petty detail of your story. You never let go of any of your wounds. Your mantra is “I hurt, therefore I am.” Therefore, your ego can never wholeheartedly forgive. If it does, the ego’s forgiveness is a tactic, no ...
Partnering with God
The Kabbalists take the mandate of love implicit in self perception one step further. I need to understand that not only am I a part of God, but I am also a partner to God. Renaissance mystic Judah Loew of Prague writes that the litmus test of true l ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #11 — King or Servant
by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. Ego is the servant pretending to be a king. You are avoiding stepping into your Unique Self for fear of being a king. Your ego thinks it is God but does not really believe it, so your ego insanely tries to make ...
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 ...
“I Need!” … A Gift of the Lover
from the forthcoming book by Marc Gafni, Dance of Tears All of these passages are rooted in the lovers model of relation between the person or the people and God. The key gift the lover gives to the beloved is to need the beloved. And the converse. T ...
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 ...
The Next Step in Transformation: Unique Self, Organizational Leadership and the Destiny of Nations
A 3-Part Web Tele-Series with Richard Barrett and Marc Gafni Thought Leaders Marc Gafni and Richard Barrett will engage in a free, 3-part monthly tele-series in April, May and June. See below for dates, times, full descriptions of each session, and h ...
Evolving Complexity Equals Evolving Love
Excerpted from Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment by Dr. Marc Gafni From quarks to atoms to cells to molecules, onward and upward Teilhard de Chardin, Abraham Kook, and many other evolutionary mystics point out that complexi ...
Loving the Essence of Other Beings
We are challenged to expand the Love list in our lives to authentically embrace the many people we meet, bringing our Unique Self to each encounter. “Anyplace where you are regarded only as a function, where your name is not known and honored, ...
Being True to Your Unique Self With Morning Prayer
By Marc Gafni from a work in progress “Dance of Tears” Prayer is the restoration of the divine image through the restoration of the dignity of the word. Prayer, teach the masters, models sacred speech. Writes the Maggid of Mezeritch… ...
Emotional Mastery is Vital to Deep Spiritual Intelligence
by Marc Gafni From a work in progress, Dance of Tears: Our goal is to be able to access and listen to the voice of deep emotion and detect within it the voice of God. This is how these mystics read the text, “The masters are those who have mast ...
Center for World Spirituality Mystery School of Love (aka Summer Festival of Love) Venwoude International Retreat Center, Holland
The following video gives you a small taste of the Center for World Spirituality Mystery School of Love (aka Summer Festival of Love) run in partnership with Venwoude International retreat center. The Mystery School is an annual eight day event which ...
Love is Your Birthright
by Marc Gafni Love between people, at its core, is not an emotion. Love between people, at its core, is a perception. Love is a Unique Selfperception. The emotion is a direct result of the perception. To be a lover is to have eyes to see. Love percei ...
The Seventh Law of Unique Self Encounters
Unique Self Encounters Require not Only Integrity but Evolutionary Integrity By Marc Gafni Your Unique Self is also defined by your evolutionary context. In a Unique Self encounter, you seek not only romantic, pragmatic, or emotional con- nection. Yo ...