To be connected to your Unique Self means to know that your story is sufficiently important, significant, and wonderful, and that the entire world was created for its sake. The dignity of your story demands no less than that you get up every morning and know that your very next action has the power to shape the destiny of our collective future.
Your Unique Self,
Marc Gafni
page 161,162
Love, which previously was cloaked in third-person as an impersonal force, becomes obvious in second person and first person. This is the awesome realization that impersonal kosmic love and personal human love at their highest levels are one and the same. One love expresses itself all up and down the great chain of being, and all up and down the evolutionary ladder. We see love in action in our lives and feel love as Source from which we live. More than that, we are capable of articulating our first-person love and sharing it in second-person conversation and third-person reporting. This is the momentous evolutionary leap of love at the leading edge of human consciousness.
Your Unique Self
Dr. Marc Gafni
Page 122
Eros seduces man toward evolution, toward greater consciousness. Love seduces man to love. Eros is the inner animating quality of the ecstatic evolutionary impulse of the Ground of Being, evolving toward the most aware and noble expression of itself. It is love persuading us to ever-deeper levels of love.
Marc Gafni
Your Unique Self
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Your Unique Self
Dr. Marc Gafni
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By Marc Gafni
From Your Unique Self:
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We are, in the words of Kabbalist Luria, “cut from the same cloth and hewn from the same quarry, even as we each have an utterly unique soul expression and soul destiny.”
The great Buddhist way of describing this is the story of the water and the wave:Two waves flowed toward shore. The larger wave was extremely depressed, while the small wave peacefully moved along.
“If you could see what I see from up here,” said the large wave to the small wave, “you would not be so happy.”
“What do you see?” asked the small wave.
“In not too long, we will crash into the shore, and that will be the end of us.”
“Oh, that,” said the small wave. “that’s OK.”
“What, are you crazy!?”
“I know a little secret that tells me that it’s OK,” said the small wave.
“Would you like me to share it with you?”
Our large-wave friend was both curious and suspicious:
“Will I have to pay a lot of money to learn it?” he asked.
“No, not at all.”
“Will I have to do zazen for thirty years in the lotus position?”
“No, not at all,” said the small wave.
“Really, the whole thing is only eight words.”
“Eight words!!! Then, tell me already!”
The small wave said, ever so gently, “You are not a wave. You are water.”
To which the Unique Self mystics add, “And you are also a Unique, beloved, and irreplaceable wave.”
Your Unique Self
Dr. Marc Gafni
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