Russ Hudson, co-founder of the Enneagram Institute, explains the essence of Enneagram Type 2.
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CLEAR ALL
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.