Underneath Your Personality: Discover Greater Well-Being Through Deep Living With the Enneagram

unconscious filters that only accept supporting information. Regrettably, that means these filters miss and dismiss data that would otherwise provide alternative perspectives. Information that doesn’t fit our core belief patterns is subliminally discarded.

Keep in mind that our personality is not just connected to our thoughts. It’s ingrained in every part of our finite nature: in our bodies and the sensations they carry, in our hearts and the range of feelings we habitually experience,

The practice of being judgment-free builds our capacity to fully accept ourselves as human.

All of our conscious focus tends to be reserved for the world around us rather than for what’s going on inside of us. The unfortunate consequence of this imbalance in focus is that we may not really know who we are below the surface. And whether we acknowledge it or not, that lack of knowing creates inner friction.

when we allow our personalities to drive our focus of attention, we end up with a narrowing field of possibilities. And as time goes by, that becomes more pronounced, defined, and fixed. Anything outside the scope of our increasingly limited emotional vision can create an inaccurate sense of security in our narrow perspectives.

Acceptance of ourselves and of our life journey is far more powerful than self-judgment in terms of our transformation.

much of our lives just happen, and we aren’t really paying attention.

deciphering the invisible rules of our ego codes is to see what we focus on in our lives. What’s getting our time and attention?

The way we organize each day is largely dictated by our personalities.