For me, the art of life is learning to let what is awake in me touch and be touched by what is awake in the other rather than letting what is asleep in me be annoyed by what is asleep In the other.
Alia Johnson (1948-2010) teacher of the
Diamond Heart Approach founded by A.H. Almaas
“I received this quote from one of my teachers, Alia Johnson. It’s a lifelong work that I aspire to every day. Also, the Enneagram is asking us what kind of person we are: How do we show up with other people? Do we have kindness? Do we have courage? Do we have good boundaries? Do we have clarity? As we learn more about these gifts of the nine points of the Enneagram they become ingredients that fold into reformatting us as a person who can be touched by what is awake in others. I think that our human future depends on us finding ways to meet each other that aren’t based on exclusivity, conspiracies, and other kinds of ways that are not effective. Rather, to actually meet from presence, heart to heart, mind to mind. We might be able to figure out some ways forward if we do that.”
Russ Hudson, author of
The Enneagram: Nine Gateways to Presence
