In integration Eights reach toward the Two. They levy their need to be against at such things as injustice and poverty, and show up as generous and loving. Mother Teresa, with whom I spent quite a bit of time, is probably the most commonly mistyped Two. She clearly was an integrated Eight. In disintegration Eights who can’t get their way through presence and force take on the mental reductionism of the Five. They use keen insight into people to reduce them to the most easily manipulated fragment of their whole. The Virtue of Eights is innocence, which is awakened through vulnerability. When an
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