This week we are presenting the second in a multi-part dialogue series on Unique Self featuring Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni (a series which will continue all autumn). In this second clip (about 20 minutes), Ken and Marc situate the Unique Self within t ...
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Gafni/Wilber: Unique Self Dialogue, Part 1
Recently the Center for World Spirituality has begun to showcase an important dialogue on Unique Self which I participated in with Ken Wilber. These dialogues are a key part of one of CWS’s essential project of developing a World Spirituality b ...
Daily Wisdom: Appreciating Each Other’s Purple Trees
By Marc Gafni There is a tale that educators love about the girl who paints a purple tree. The teacher, who has drawn a tree on the board and asked the children to copy it, is disapproving. “You didn’t copy my tree.” “I know,& ...
Evolutionary Enlightenment & Unique Self Enlightenment: A Dialogue
With the launch of UniqueSelf.com, a wide range of dialogues have been published which cumulatively situate Unique Self within the context of Integral Spirituality and Evolutionary Spirituality. Over the next several months, the CWS blog — Spir ...
More in Love than Ever
At the moment of the big bang, the original light of infinite goodness is shattered. It is shattered in the way that the heart of the lover is shattered: by opening in love to the Beloved. It is shattered by an infinite desire to move from Bein ...
Your Unique Letter, Your Unique Story
In the mythic teaching of ancient Hebrew mysticism, the calligraphy of your Unique Letter in the cosmic scroll is determined by the particular angle at which you were situated in relationship to the revelation at Mount Sinai. Sinai, in the great Hebr ...
Redeem suffering
How does your Unique Christ Self redeem suffering? When the who of suffering becomes clear, then you can bear almost any how. When you realize that the particular pain you feel is an intrinsic part of your passion and presence, part of your path ...
Daily Wisdom: You are Special! You are Unique!
Moving beyond the obsession with the personal helps you to wake up. You evolve from separate self to True Self. You begin to realize that you are in fact not an isolated or separate part, but rather you are part of the whole, of All-That-Is. Once, ho ...
Unique Self Specialness
Unique Self specialness is an authentic realization of overpowering joy. I am special, and so are you. Each of us has a Unique Self. We are not equally talented, wise, sensual, or compassionate. But paradoxically, we are all special, each in our own ...
Daily Wisdom: To Greet With God’s Name
The world over, God’s name is evoked in greetings. The Spanish hello – ‘Olah’ – originated in Arab Spain from the term “O’Allah” — Allah of course being the Arab appellation of God. In Bavarian German they say ‘Gruss G ...
Daily Wisdom: A Name with the power to Heal
Why do we respond to death not with an exclamation of comfort, but with the Kaddish — a seemingly theological statement, “Magnified and Exalted is his great name”? The answer holds one of the most sacred mysteries of love rooted in the se ...
The Essential I (By Dr. Marc Gafni)
By Dr. Marc Gafni In this excerpt from Reclaiming Rosh Hashanah: The Dance of Tears (forthcoming), Dr. Marc Gafni explores the Garden of Eden biblical story and Abraham Kook’s teaching on the “inner essential I,” through which we come to u ...
Prayer: a pointing-out instruction for God
By Marc Gafni We are all despearate for communion. It is what makes our lives worth living. Communion is the movement from loneliness to loving. It is the experience of being held and received. We are all systematically mis-recognized. To be recogniz ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self
It is through the consistent commitment to the growth of the other expressed through regular and spontaneous acts of giving that you become a lover. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: You are beautiful!
The most important thing we can ever tell someone else is, “You are beautiful.†...