jeff miller

Nines remember the Essential quality of wholeness and completion. They remember the interconnectedness of all things—that nothing in the universe exists separate from anything else.

(The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 339)

draw a symbolic line in the sand somehow and truly expect things on the other side to be special, invitational, or even a kind of manifestation. It always works. On the other side of that log, or lawn, or “line in the sand,” we start beholding. Someone who is truly beholding is, first of all, silenced with the utter gratuity of a thing, a tree, a b

Celebrate your finest qualities today.

Express your steady, inclusive, and healing nature.

How can you do this in a balanced way?

We can do anything in our lives from a place of centeredness and relaxation

or from a state of being frantic and having inner tension.

Conscious relaxation is a matter of learning how to come back to the here and now again and again, opening up to a deeper and deeper impression of reality. Connect with this truth today.

An expanded awareness enables us to bring more of ourselves and thus more resources to bear on whatever problems or difficulties we may be facing.

(The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 40)

Remember the virtue of your type is Engagement (action).

When you are present and awake, you are dynamically involved and in contact with each moment.

(Understanding the Enneagram, 61)

Remember that the Passion of Nines is sloth, or really a not wanting to show up in their lives in an active, self-initiating way.

They go on automatic pilot, so that life becomes less threatening to them.

Watch for this tendency in yourself today.

(The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 327)

Philosopher George Santayana on why we follow the crowd:

“A man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body.

He may like to go alone for a walk,

but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.”

By solitude, the desert mystics didn’t mean mere privacy or protected space, although there is a need for that too. The desert mystics saw solitude, in Henri Nouwen’s words, as “the place of conversion, the place where the old self dies and the new self is born, the place where the emergence of the new man and the new woman occurs.”