The mirror reflects your inner being, and only there can you work to raise your inner energy and gain clarity that the existential emptiness imprisoning you is nothing but the absence of “Self-Knowledge.” That emptiness begins to dissolve when we open ourselves to the world from within—untangling the knots and freeing the spirit. Then, the voice of our Being resounds in the inner silence and reveals timeless truths:
- Our natural state is to be joyful, loving, peaceful, abundant, and whole.
- We came to remember that we are divine, created in the image and likeness of the Creator.
- By recognizing our divine origin, we must train ourselves daily to climb the mountain of life—with its ascents and descents, its falls and steep slopes, its challenges that call us to grow, to serve, to acknowledge our worth, and also to accept the path and the diversity—of races, beliefs, languages, habits—of those who walk beside us. Differences that often push us out of those fleeting states of peace, because we search for it outside instead of in the sacred center of the heart.
Why then does our image not reflect that peace, joy, and fullness that belong to us as a divine inheritance? I believe that, although it is part of divine pedagogy, in childhood we absorb the tangled web of destabilizing beliefs from our family and cultural environment. These imposed limiting patterns of life, ruled by the instinct of survival—an impulse we share with animals—from which arose the four basic fears (of losing, of facing, of abandonment, and of dying). They shaped our personality and still keep us imprisoned. Fears that gave rise to the four great human challenges: illness, conflict, scarcity, and maladaptation.
“Know yourself.” Entering the Enneagram is a path of transformation.
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