Beschreibung:
Join over 1 million other readers worldwide on a journey of spiritual growth and self-awareness.What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships—and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts?The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach—a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God.Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number. Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other people's eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do.To guide your first steps into your self-awareness journey, The Road Back to You offers: Introductions to each Enneagram type Questions to help you identify your number Changes you can make today to pursue deeper self-awareness Digestible windows into the other types, helping you see others with more compassion and empathyThe wisdom of the Enneagram can help take you further along into who you really are—leading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become.
1. A Curious Theory of Unknown Origin
2. Finding Your Type
3. Type Eight: The Challenger
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of the way." —General George S. Patton Jr.
4. Type Nine: The Peacemaker
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." —Virginia Woolf
5. Type One: The Perfectionist
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people." —Anne Lamott
6. Type Two: The Helper
"I want you to be happy, but I want to be the reason." —Anonymous
7. Type Three: The Performer
"The real question is, can you love the real me? . . . Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am." —Christine Feehan
8. Type Four: The Romantic
"If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you." —Tim Burton
9. Type Five: The Investigator
"I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.." —George Carlin
10. Type Six: The Loyalist
"There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst."
—Stephen King
11. Type Seven: The Enthusiast
"Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings!" —Peter Pan
12. So Now What? The Beginning of Love
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves." —Thomas Merton
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