Dec 16, 2016
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Gerise Pappas asks “What does it take to love every part of yourself? What are the challenges to meet ourselves there?”
Book: The Wisdom Way Of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault.
The Little Acorn - a Parable
Once upon a time, in a not-so-faraway
land,
there was a kingdom
of acorns,
nestled at the
foot of a grand old oak tree.
Since the citizens of this kingdom were modern,
fully Westernized acorns,
they went about their business with purposeful
energy;
and since they
were midlife, baby-boomer acorns,
they engaged in a lot of self-help
courses.
There were
seminars called “Getting All You Can out of Your
Shell.”
There were
woundedness and recovery groups for acorns who had
been
bruised in their
original fall from the tree.
There were spas for oiling and polishing those
shells and
various
acornopathic therapies to enhance longevity and
well-being.
One day in the midst of this
kingdom there suddenly appeared a knotty
little
stranger,
apparently dropped ‘out of the blue’ by a passing
bird.
He was capless and
dirty, making an immediate
negative impression on his fellow
acorns
And crouched
beneath the oak tree, he stammered out a wild
tale.
Pointing upward at
the tree, he said, “We...are...that!”
Delusional thinking, obviously,
the other acorns concluded,
but one of them continued to engage him in
conversation:
“So tell
us, how would we become that tree?”
“Well,” said he, pointing downward, “it has
something to do with going
into the ground and…and cracking open the
shell”.
“Insane, “ they
responded.
“Totally
morbid!
Why, then we
wouldn’t be acorns anymore.”
Book: Beatrice Chestnut: The Complete Enneagram, 27 Paths To Greater Self-knowledge.
Unconscious “Drivers” of the Enneagram types.
Links mentioned
Book: The Wisdom Way Of Knowing
by Cynthia Bourgeault.
Book: Beatrice Chestnut:
The Complete Enneagram, 27 Paths To
Greater Self-knowledge.
Contact information
Gerise Pappas
415-722-0044
Gerise@GerisePappas.com
www.GerisePappas.com
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Loveshadow - Almost Given
Up
Nethis -
Steady
Speck -
Greensleeves (whatever mix)
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