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"WOWZA. I am so loving this book! Okay i'm not really on p 411 because I skip around a bit but, still, I'm finding this to be a really thorough and depthful exploration of how the Enneagram can be used to identify & (1) disindentify from the Personality through self observation, (2) surrender to the fear & emotional suffering associated with loosening ego defenses, and (3) actively work toward transcendence & union." — Oct 25, 2014 10:19AM
"WOWZA. I am so loving this book! Okay i'm not really on p 411 because I skip around a bit but, still, I'm finding this to be a really thorough and depthful exploration of how the Enneagram can be used to identify & (1) disindentify from the Personality through self observation, (2) surrender to the fear & emotional suffering associated with loosening ego defenses, and (3) actively work toward transcendence & union." — Oct 25, 2014 10:19AM
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"Wow. I read dozens of books a year and haven't read a book in years that I recommend as highly as this one. It's not just about saying 'No' but about living in accordance with our deepest needs and values by getting clear about that to which, in our urge to say No, we are really wanting to say Yes. I don't care what other books I 'should' be reading for school rather than this one, cuz the author had me at "No." ;-)" — Oct 18, 2013 06:18PM
"Wow. I read dozens of books a year and haven't read a book in years that I recommend as highly as this one. It's not just about saying 'No' but about living in accordance with our deepest needs and values by getting clear about that to which, in our urge to say No, we are really wanting to say Yes. I don't care what other books I 'should' be reading for school rather than this one, cuz the author had me at "No." ;-)" — Oct 18, 2013 06:18PM
“It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we will be able first of all to face and accept our own limitations. As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no expects us to be 'as gods'. We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“Pardon all runners,
All speechless, alien winds,
All mad waters.
Pardon their impulses,
Their wild attitudes,
Their young flights, their reticence.
When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.”
―
All speechless, alien winds,
All mad waters.
Pardon their impulses,
Their wild attitudes,
Their young flights, their reticence.
When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.”
―
“What do you want to want to be, anyway?"
"I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic."
"What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.”
― The Seven Storey Mountain
"I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic."
"What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.”
― The Seven Storey Mountain
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