The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues Finding the Way Home

by Maitri, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9781585424061
• ISBN10: 1585424064
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

How the mysterious nine-pointed symbol of the enneagram illuminates the worst pitfalls and highest virtues of our psyches. The Enneagram of Passions and Virtueselucidates human experience beyond the personality structure. In the tradition of the enneagram, the Virtues are said to be the affective atmosphere that replaces the compulsive and reactive emotional patterns-called the Passions-as one becomes freer of the ego. Sandra Maitri shows how the shift in our consciousness, or soul, from being informed by the Passions to being informed by the Virtues, is one of the hallmarks of inner development. In this book, Maitri explores how our awareness of the Passions, in turn, leads to the manifestation of the Virtues. This shift supports rowth on the level of personality as well as on the level of what is beyond-Being, or True Nature. Maitri is widely known as one of the most literate and indepth writers and teachers on the uses of the enneagram as a tool of inner development. In this book she provides what can be for some an entry into inner work, and for others, who have been engaged in the journey for a longer time, a uniquely incisive explication of concepts they may have missed.

Author Biography

Sandra Maitri was a member of the first group of students to whom the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo presented the enneagram system in the United States. Maitri teaches the enneagram, as part of the larger work of spiritual transformation, to hundreds of students each year in the United States and Europe.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
LIST OF DIAGRAMS	xiii
FOREWORD BY A.H. ALMAAS	xv
INTRODUCTION	1	(10)
CHAPTER 1 THE ENNEAGRAM, THE SOUL, THE PASSIONS AND THE VIRTUES	11	(22)
Section 1 THE OUTER-DIRECTED CORNER
CHAPTER 2 POINT NINE-LAZINESS AND ACTION	33	(19)
CHAPTER 3 POINT EIGHT-LUST AND INNOCENCE	52	(20)
CHAPTER 4 POINT ONE-ANGER AND SERENITY	72	(23)
Section 2 THE IMAGE CORNER
CHAPTER 5 POINT THREE-DECEIT AND VERACITY	95	(17)
CHAPTER 6 POINT TWO-PRIDE AND HUMILITY	112	(19)
CHAPTER 7 POINT FOUR-ENVY AND EQUANIMITY	131	(22)
Section 3 THE FEAR CORNER
CHAPTER 8 POINT SIX-FEAR AND COURAGE	153	(19)
CHAPTER 9 POINT SEVEN-GLUTTONY AND SOBRIETY	172	(17)
CHAPTER 10 POINT FIVE-AVARICE AND NONATTACHMENT	189	(18)
AFTERWORD	207	(4)
NOTES	211	(6)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	217	(4)
INDEX	221