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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Photograph by kookalamanza
I’m currently reading Richard Rohr’s book Simplicity, The Freedom of Letting Go. Rohr is a Franciscan priest, a well-known writer and retreat master.
I find myself both inspired and challenged by this book. He asks us to see things in different, demanding ways. He uses the teachings of Christ as his bedrock and […]
The closeness of community
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
It’s difficult to write about the joy of community without sounding saccharine or trite. But I’ve been so aware of depth and blessedness this last weekend that I’m going to try.
I was at Turvey Abbey, a Benedictine monastery, teaching the first of our Enneagram weekends this year. The Enneagram system is a wonderful way of […]
Do our personalities change?
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Brad at Enneagram Book kindly asked me to be a guest writer on his blog, so I’m cross-posting here what I wrote for him.
When people first start learning the Enneagram, two questions always come up:
Isn’t this just putting me in a box?
Can our underlying personalities actually change?
I usually deal with the first question by observing […]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Sunday, August 19th, 2007Just a few new things to point out in this blog:
You may already have noticed the Miscellanea panel in the right-hand sidebar. This is a function of Google Reader, which I use for subscribing to the blogs I read. It has a nifty feature that allows you to share individual blog posts which have caught […]
Spiritual type
Monday, August 13th, 2007As you’ll probably have guessed if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, I’m fond of various on-line quizzes.
I found this one at the Vision Vocation Network, which has many items of general interest on prayer and spirituality, although its primary purposes is determining the question of monastic vocation.
This particular quiz asks “What is […]
Awareness
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Someone asked me today about my work with the Enneagram system of spiritual and personal development. At one point she made a rather barbed comment about sitting around ‘navel-gazing’. She does a lot of charity work and seemed to think that self-knowledge is a waste of time when you could be out helping others.
She would […]
Celebrating difference
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007I mentioned that I spent this last weekend co-facilitating a weekend on the Enneagram system of personal development at Turvey Abbey.
The Enneagram teaches that we each have one of nine different types of personality, in effect masks that initially help us cope with what life throws at us but eventually hold us back from full […]
Enneagram Community - Day Three
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Well, talking to a few of our Enneagram learners today, it seems I over-romanticised the keeping silence aspect of community building that I posted about yesterday: apparently a large group of them went off to the pub in the evening to talk over what they’d learned!
This was interesting to me, as it underlined that […]