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The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery QUOTES

The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery QUOTES

1 " The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

2 " The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

3 " Once you know the dark side of your personality, simply give God consent to do for you what you’ve never been able to do for yourself, namely, bring meaningful and lasting change to your life. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

4 " The Enneagram doesn’t put you in a box. It shows you the box you’re already in and how to get out of it. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

5 " Risking vulnerability and love is what takes courage. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

6 " Anyone who says they’re “trying” to be a good Christian right away reveals they have no idea what a Christian is. Christianity is not something you do as much as something that gets done to you. Once you know the dark side of your personality, simply give God consent to do for you what you’ve never been able to do for yourself, namely, bring meaningful and lasting change to your life. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

7 " Sooner or later we must distinguish between what we are not and what we are. We must accept the fact that we are not what we would like to be. We must cast off our false, exterior self like the cheap and showy garment that it is "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

8 " your number is not determined by what you do so much as by why you do it. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

9 " How, as John Calvin put it, “without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.” “For "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

10 " Ironically, the term personality is derived from the Greek word for mask ( persona), reflecting our tendency to confuse the masks we wear with our true selves, even long after the threats of early childhood have passed. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

11 " Either way, always maintain a compassionate stance toward yourself as God does. Self-contempt will never produce lasting, healing change in our lives, only love. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

12 " Human beings are wired for survival. As little kids we instinctually place a mask called personality over parts of our authentic self to protect us from harm and make our way in the world. Made up of innate qualities, coping strategies, conditioned reflexes and defense mechanisms, among lots of other things, our personality helps us know and do what we sense is required to please our parents, to fit in and relate well to our friends, to satisfy the expectations of our culture and to get our basic needs met. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

13 " Sadly, the unlived lives of parents sometimes push their children toward destinies not of their own choosing. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

14 " the source of most of your problems is you. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

15 " I love a lot of people, understand none of them.” Flannery O’Connor "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

16 " Don't try to change people. Love them. Only in acceptance can people embrace healthy transformation. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

17 " Stop fantasizing about the ideal relationship, career or community and getting stuck in longing for it. Instead, work hard for what’s possible and see it through to completion. Don’t look for beauty and meaning only in the extraordinary or unusual but in the ordinary and simple as well. When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say to you. Don’t embellish and get swept up in your feelings. In the words of Jack Kornfield, “No emotion is final. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

18 " Atticus tells her, “Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

19 " Information is not transformation. "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

20 " We must find our real self, in all its elemental poverty, but also in its great and very simple dignity: created to be the child of God, and capable of loving with something of God’s own sincerity and his unselfishness "

― Ian Morgan Cron , The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery