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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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