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Path #1: The Jewel in my heart is Goodness. When my Jewel shines clearly, I reflect Goodness into the world like Gandhi, in service of rightness and justice. When my Jewel is obstructed by self-hatred or by the voice of my harsh inner judge, my essential Goodness can come across as self-righteousness or nitpicky perfectionism. I’m trying my best to find my essential Goodness, and I need to remember that I can’t get that by living up to my impossible inner standard of rightness; I can only find true Goodness by learning to be present with myself as I am.

Highlights:

• the usual error
• “you are perfect”
• The Paradox of Perfection
• resentment, martyrdom
• The One’s stress and security points
• Why Ones are awesome
• Holy Perfection
• let yourself be witnessed with compassion
• distinguish your inner judge’s voice from your own voice
• self-care and play
• be vulnerable
• don’t repress the parts of you that you don’t like
• acceptance of others, self-acceptance
• how you can harness your personality instead of trying to repress it

Links:

• A conversation with Amanda (a One) about what it’s like to be her
• The Usual Error
• AlterConf
• Octodad
• The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram, by Sandra Maitri

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