I
get these daily messages from the Enneagram Institute, and this is
what barely kept me from rewatching old Doctor Who:
The
Direction of Growth for Nines is Three. When healthy Nines go to
Three, they become self-assured and interested in developing
themselves and their talents to the fullest extent possible. How can
you more fully develop yourself today? (The Enneagram Institute,
Personality Types, p369)
Grumble.
Still
what with snow and children and weekends and such, I am asserting my
rebelliousness by not meditating.
I
think perhaps that I recognize that last bit of identity assertion as
being lame.
I
painted a wee little monster instead of watching a traveling
time-lord. May I introduce to you the Tarasque? (hmm. sounds like TARDIS, and similar blue color...)
The
Tarasque was a monster on a rampage in Nerluc, of Provence, France.
According to one story it had a
head like a lion, legs like a bear's (but six of them), the body of
an ox wearing a turtle shell, and the tail of a scorpion. It burned
all it touched, until Saint Martha tamed it, brought it back to the
town, but the people killed the now docile beastie.
Sad
story. But the townspeople felt bad and renamed their town
Tarascon...
And
now a few words on loneliness from Krishnamurti:
“The
entity who tries to fill or run away from emptiness, incompleteness,
loneliness, is not different from that which he is avoiding; he is
it. He cannot run away from himself; all that he can do is understand
himself. He is his loneliness, his emptiness[.]” On Love and
Loneliness p56