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Remember your passion is Sloth, which is not laziness but a lack of engagement with your own life.

Can you allow yourself to feel the full range of your energy and aliveness today?

(Understanding the Enneagram, 60)

Back to basics today: remember that your Basic Desire is to maintain your inner stability and peace of mind.

Can you become aware of how your Basic Desire is the root of many of your most compelling motivations and unconscious actions?

(The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 316)

What is your personal “minimum daily requirement” for being authentic about your spiritual work?

What do you sincerely require of yourself?

To what are you actually committing yourself when you are “walking the walk”: of transformation and liberation?

(The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 348)

Today, let go of one of your self-defeating attitudes by saying to yourself: I now release living through others and not developing myself.

(Enneagram Transformations, 108)

Remember, that at your best, you are good-natured, fully alive, awake, and alert. Notice how these qualities show up in you today.

(Personality Types, 338)

Remember your Passion is Sloth, which is being unaffected by the world and giving no energy to your own development. Where do you see this type of laziness occurring in your life today? (Understanding the Enneagram, 60)

The Passion is the root of all the ego neurosis, the ongoing emotional reaction that permeates the whole system at all Levels of

Remember that your cognitive error is to seek peace of mind by diffusing your attention and disengaging from your instinctual energy.

You become “unselfconscious,” mistakenly thinking that your presence, engagement, and input do not matter.

Notice this tendency in your thinking today. (Understanding the Enneagram, 125)

This is our orientation: It is not to get lost in all the mechanics of the Enneagram, it is not to get lost in the psychology,

but to seek to use that as a way of reminding us how we got lost.

How did we fall asleep? How did we forget who we really are?

Because each of us has forgotten that we are a spark of the Divine.

Back to basics today: remember that your Direction of Disintegration/Stress is to Six, where you become visibly anxious, reactive, and pessimistic. Is this showing up in you today? (Understanding the Enneagram, 122)