![]() ![]() We are free to operate without attachment to the needs of self or others. We sense what is appropriate to give and take. For example, we experience this flow in the mother-infant nursing experience, where both are nurtured and, in helping, respond to tragedies and environmental disasters. Type 2: Holy Freedom (Humility) means real needs get met by a will greater than our own will, which creates the freedom to be in the natural flow of giving and receiving without pride (termed “humility”). In this state of being, it becomes impossible to intentionally hurt another being as love is all there is. This means we are in the natural flow of positive and negative experience, which gives us a non-judgmental perspective. Thus, all positive and negative feelings occur without resistance and anger abates. Then all experience, including the vital instincts, occurs without resistance, as though we were little children. Type 1: Holy Perfection (Serenity) means the undivided oneness-of-all at the core of our being without judgmentalness, which we experience in the body as calm abiding and simple appreciation of differences (termed “serenity”). Each of these qualities simply needs to be integrated into our lives each day. Some aspects cited here represent the personality’s experience when integration occurs and therefore, as a result, represent our best personality qualities. Here, in my simple understandings, I share what these qualities of essence mean to me, listing first the holy idea (or higher mental quality) and then the virtue (or higher emotional quality). The Enneagram words for these essential qualities just don’t fit the dictionary definitions. Remember, “essence” is that which underlies all external manifestations and is permanent and unchanging (Webster’s Dictionary). And integration requires the development of grounded receptive energy, which I call the “great emulsifier,” as it allows our essential qualities to infuse our personality structure and liberate us from the confines of our old no-longer-valid core beliefs and habit of mind. When integrated into our personality, they change the structure of our lives, literally the substance of our being. We need to deeply know that these qualities are not just experienced cognitively, but also emotionally and energetically, i.e., somatically. In unity, there is simply knowing that the divine or essential qualities of holy hope, faith, unconditional love, universal truth, perfection of all, freedom, origin, omniscience and work. We have all had oneness-of-all experiences at some point, for example, in hearing and playing music, in being in a wondrous scene in nature, in skiing down a slope, in sexual union, in prayer, in meditation or deep reflection, in acts of kindness, etc. ![]() The essential qualities exist at the core of our being, at the hub of existence in the oneness-of-all or unity. ![]() I state the meaning of “essence” as those qualities of being that underlie all external manifestations and are always present at least in the background, qualities such as hope, faith, and love.ĭavid’s Simplified Descriptions of the Types’ Essential Spiritual Qualities: Integrating These Into Our Personality Structure For each type I clarify the meaning of the words used in the Enneagram teachings, define how I experience these qualities, and give short examaples. SYNOPSIS OF ARTICLE: Here I review what the higher essential qualities of the nine types mean to me. ![]()
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