The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up Quotes

“Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.” —Rachel Hawthorne”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” —Marshall Rosenberg”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

“The Enneagram is a complex and meaningful symbol that relates to many different systems of knowledge, including psychology, cosmology, and mathematics. It forms the basis of a highly accurate typology that describes nine distinct personality types and serves as a sense-making framework for understanding the human ego and mapping out a process of growth. As a psychological and spiritual model that lays out specific paths of self-development, it helps us “wake up” to ourselves by revealing the habitual patterns and blind spots that limit our growth and transformation.”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. RALPH WALDO EMERSON”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

“if it was her fault that she had lost the connection she had once felt—maybe that meant she could do something to make things right. Maybe she could somehow make a connection with others and the world again by showing everyone how special she was—or by making them see how much she was suffering by acknowledging that she wasn't as special as she had thought. In the meantime, her sadness became a familiar friend that kept her company when she was lonely.”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

“Ironically, they must learn not to improve, but rather to “get worse” by accepting the risk (or the reality) of being “bad” or “wrong”—starting with small things.”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

“Allow life to direct your actions rather than imposing your will to move things forward.”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.” —C. G. Jung”
― Beatrice Chestnut, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self