Unique Self Practices

by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self

Your egoic story can be taken away by the circumstances of life. Your Unique Self story can never be taken away from you.

Ego can be taken away from you. Unique Self can never be taken away from you.

Further discussion:

In his book Your Unique Self Dr. Marc continues with a beautiful, very personal, and deeply touching story, which shall be reserved for its readers. Another example for this would be the story of the great Rebbe of Piaseczno, who has found and lived his Unique Self story in the midst of the greatest destruction, so beautifully told by Dr. Marc in this video series.

For the conclusion of our series on the distinctions between Unique Self and Ego, it remains to be said: It is time to put it all to work in our daily lives, in our personal Unique Self stories.

And in all our striving and yearning that is an essential part of waking up and growing up to our full realization of our Unique Self, let’s never forget that in essence, Unique Self is who we truly are and always have been. So, in a way, we can relax into our own everlasting being and becoming. Uniqueness and Oneness are all around as well as within us–for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. To awaken to our infinitely gorgeous Unique Selves simply means to become conscious of that and to realize it in our own being–and in the world.

To show up as Unique Self means–as Dr. Marc so often reminds us–to incarnate as the Personal Face of Essence, of the Love-Beauty and Love-Intelligence of the Cosmos, to give our Unique gifts, and to respond to an authentic need that we are aware of in our world. It means to “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself,” to see the neighbor even in the stranger, to become outrageous lovers, and to write outrageous loveletters to the universe.

Join us in our caravan of love!

Come back to these distinctions as often as you like and share with us your path of learning and discovery–here or on one of our FB-pages:

1. Special or Not Special
2. Action or Reaction 
3. Imitation or Originality
4. Satisfaction and Greed
5. Enough or More
6. Ego or Unique Self Story
7. Joy or Fear
8. Open Heart or Closed Heart
9. Eros or Grasping
10. Authentic Freedom or Pseudofreedom
11. King or Servant
12. Victim or Player
13. Betrayal or Loyalty
14. Authentic Friendship or Pseudofriendship
15. Bigger or Smaller
16. Yes or No
17. Justice or Injustice
18. Responsibility or Excuse
19. Paradox or Splitting
20. Past or Present
21. Special Relationship or Open as Love
22. Love or Fear
23. Eternity or Death
24. Pleasure: Delusion or Divine

Let’s finish this series with Rumi:

Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
It doesn’t matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.