Ep. 15 - The Unawakened Personality and the Enneagram - a podcast by William Cooper, M.Th., LPC

The personality is not us but thoughts and emotions that we have created to get what we think we do not have.  Because we are separated from our Being we no longer fully experience true Love, Peace, and Happiness. Though we get glimpses from time to time.  In order to try to regain Love, Peace, and Happiness we form a getting machine called personality made of tools called thoughts and emotions.  There are only 9 ways to form a personality.  The enneagram describes these 9 ways.  3 personality types are centered around anger, 3 around abandonment, 3 around fear. The personality that forms tries to get satisfied by manufacturing or capturing, getting, Love, Peace, and Happiness.  The harder it tries the more cut off we become.  There are many free enneagram tests and description on the internet.  Google and see if this info would be helpful but don't get lost in it all.  You are not your personality and that's the point.  The personality is a maladaptive way to try to get what you already are.  Your Being is Love, Peace and Happiness.  Awakening meditation is where we Stop and deepen being in touch with our Self.
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