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The Politics of Radical Clarity: Helen Palmer and the Enneagram

By D. Patrick Miller — 1998

I’m sure this reveals something about my personality type, but I like to think of Helen Palmer as The Psychic Who Made Mother Jones Nervous.

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Ultimately, nothing in this life is ‘commonplace,’ nothing is ‘in between.’ The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge. [Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.

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George Leonard
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Before You Overthink, Watch This

This Story about Harry Houdini will make you question your own mind.

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Prince EA
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Enneagram Type 9 by Russ Hudson

Russ Hudson, co-founder of the Enneagram Institute, explains the essence of Enneagram Type 9.

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We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

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Steven Johnson
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When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.

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Harriet Lerner
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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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George Leonard
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If you treat man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.

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Harriet Lerner
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But one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity is to recognize the validity of multiple realities and to understand that people think, feel, and react differently. Often we behave as if ‘closeness’ means ‘sameness.’

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Harriet Lerner
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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.

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Steven Johnson
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Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

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Bruce Lipton
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