“Please consider that because you have an ‘ego’ you also have the potential for freedom from ego. In this sense, ego and egolessness are intertwined and even inseparable. Because we have one, we also have the other. However, we can’t start at the end and just rush somehow to egolessness by pretending that we don’t matter and then embracing its corollary: pretending others don’t matter. We have to take a much more nuanced — and interesting — journey than that. It begins with turning toward yourself. Seeing yourself clearly. Loving yourself rather than attempting to push yourself aside.
“The enneagram describes nine perfectly formed, utterly gorgeous blocks or ego matrices. But they also illustrate exactly what obscures who we really are — beyond who we think we are. We may veer between seeing our blocks as beautiful (which they are) and treacherous (which they are). Some, upon discovering their type, only see the block and wonder what possible good this system is if all it does is point out what is wrong with us. What is ‘wrong’ with us is also what points us in the direction of liberation from it.”
