The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

Looking at the Pragmatists (Threes, Sixes, and Nines),

But what happens when gut people simply stop? Who are they without the good they do? When an instinctive type is forced to stop, they realize how overidentified they are with their drive to do. They are not free.

Whether we understand the Enneagram’s Passions as sins, sin tendencies, the shape of each type’s tragic flaw, or the yearning to return to our True Self, the invitation here is to find the beauty in our imperfections however they manifest themselves.

In addition to our drive to build a better world, we also live in a time when productivity and impact feed the lies we believe about ourselves. The constant pressure to do more, to fill up our schedules, to work harder. But we have to stop the busyness or we will be stopped by burnout and exhaustion. Stillness teaches us restraint, and in restraint

The Law of Seven is thought to explain the spectrums of things like light (refracted through the seven colors of a rainbow),

adopts type Seven’s propensity to overuse or overdo anything that offers pleasure

As you read through the materials, the type you feel most exposed by or most uncomfortable with is usually the one that ends up being yours.

Sevens take on a self-nurturing posture as a means of coping with their residual pain and frustration.

we almost always love being around them. But our joyful attention often serves to fortify the lie they fall into: “I am what I have.” Sevens looks for security outside of themselves: in people, places, things, and experiences. “Having” these things is their illusory freedom.