The Restory Retreat Centre

  Our Inner Compass: Facts and Deep Knowing  “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” ‭‭Matthew ‭16‬:‭15‬ NIV‬‬                           Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs‬ ‭3‬:‭5‬ NIV‬‬                          (Surrender beyond rational control makes something happen) The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music The Aria "Je Crois Encore" (I believe I can still hear) comes from Georges Bizet's opera, The Pearl Fishers. A fisherman, Nadir, believes he hears a melody that sounds from beneath the palm trees - a half-remembered truth, like intuition's quiet pull. Deep knowledge often feels like this: a song you can’t quite place, a voice you’re not sure is yours or God’s or the universe humming through you. May you listen for the small voice—soft in volume, vast in power....

Exploring the Enneagram through Art (continued) I want to explain the different types as they are identified in the Enneagram of Personality by using images of the sculptures we made for our exhibition, Your Signature, My Life.  Our personalities are formed in our attempts to protect and defend our essential being, or essence. By adopting coping mechanisms in childhood, we survive the physical world, but get cut off from our essential nature. In each sculpture, we portrayed the personality type as the imprint or Signature that has been stamped onto us. The essence, or Life , which has to be allowed to surface in order for us to fully realize ourselves, is shown to be present always, but nuanced and even hidden. By exploring the Enneagram in this way it helps us to get insight into the deeper meaning of our life that we not always have access to through cognitive thinking alone. In The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso and Russ Hudson, they "have named personalit...