The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

by Christopher L. Heuertz

The word addiction comes from the Latin addico, which suggests being literally given over to something in devotion.

This is what the Enneagram shows us: that in returning to the literal organic matter of our humanity (the soil that echoes, “From dust we came and to dust we shall return”) we come to terms with not only our limitations but the miraculous potential of that which we uncover.

people will try to intentionally develop or force movement toward integration, but my sense is that true integration is an act of pure grace, an indicator of inner health and centeredness.

The path of disintegration can be understood as a subconscious self-preservation instinct to prevent an unhealthy person from falling farther down the hole they feel stuck in.

Facing the whole of ourselves rescinds the permission we give to the fragments to lay claim to the whole of our identity.