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 ...
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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 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 ...
Distinction between Unique Self and Ego #14: Friendship or Pseudofriendship
by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. When you are in ego, you might help friends who are successful and even friends who are down, as long as it does not threaten your position. But you are not capable of truly delighting in your deepest heart in a ...
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 ...
A Conversation with Marc Gafni and John Mackey on Jealousy and Envy
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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… ...