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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Prayers on Unique Self
The Center for World Spirituality recently published a collection of reflections and personal sharing from the recent Shalom Mountain Wisdom School fall event. The prayers were gathered by Adael Bullock. Among the prayers are “Spark of Creatio ...
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: The Lover’s Art of Attention
So far, the two major qualities of the erotic lover have been perception and giving. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Love is as Love Does
Loving and giving are inextricably bound up. The great medieval philosopher Maimonides teaches that to love God is to know the divine in both world and self. ...
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. ...
First Fridays! Next First Friday: March 2 at 7 pm
Give yourself a huge gift and come to First Fridays with us, where we will eat a festive meal and practice the ecstatic arts of meaning-making, loving, chant and dance. ...
First Saturdays: World Spirituality Service & Celebration — May 7th with Marc Gafni
World Spirituality Service & Celebration Saturday, May 7th – 5pm – 10pm – Emeryville, CA Join your World Spirituality guides Marc Gafni, Mariana Caplan, Decker Cunov, Dustin DiPerna, & Marcy Baruch for an intimate and ...