Enough or More: Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #5

by dan

by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self

Your ego thinks that there is never enough to go around. It always needs more to feel like it exists at all. Your Unique Self knows that it is enough. Your Unique Self knows that there is enough to go around.

Your Unique Self strives for more, not to fill the emptiness but as an expression of the fullness of its being—bursting forth as the evolutionary impulse of the kosmos.

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“You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you – no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must”, then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

Being connected to this sense of being enough, to that fullness of being, and striving for more from that state is so different than our normal ego consciousness that always strives to fill its inherent emptiness, to improve its self-esteem, and to overcompensate for its feelings of not enough.

We need to practice this state – not only in our formal spiritual practice but in our everyday lives, in working, playing, connecting to each other, nature and…

Let’s turn again to Rilke:

“If you trust in Nature, in what is simple in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

 

Consider:

How does the expression of the fullness of being of Your Unique Self show up in your life?

Where have you already lived it?

When do you feel the flow of being that simply wants to express itself in an ever overflowing fullness of becoming – in growing into more and more complex forms and more and more expansive consciousness?

 

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