Status Updates From Enneagram II: Advancing Spi...

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"Much religion is the maintenance of self image instead of the scary search for God – saving oneself instead of grace from another."

"What you think is the most dangerous path? I think it is a path of religion. From my perspective, the path of the law and duty and religion has detoured the erotic, creative, life-giving power paths towards God and has pulled many people into a misdirected path of self-serving salvation. Consequently, these people must deal with a self image that is constantly protecting itself instead of surrendering itself."

" "all things" includes the dark things. Darkness is a great teacher. The Inferno has to be walked through; it offers us important lessons."

" "all things" includes the dark things. Darkness is a great teacher. The Inferno has to be walked through; it offers us important lessons."

"The truth is that you have to go through the dark night, you have to endure a period in which your feelings don't make a bit of sense."

" to be who you truly are is work."

"I believe profoundly now, not out of some head conviction but out of experience working with people, that the spiritual life is a matter of becoming who you truly are."

"I believe we are all an infinite mystery to ourselves. I quote the German Jesuit Karl Rahner: The faith it takes to accept the infinite mystery that you are, and the faith it takes to accept the infinite mystery that God is, are finally the same act of faith."