The Enneagram. A centerpiece of our curriculum for the soul — Working the Circle. Have a listen.

We continue last week’s exploration of how we turn our afflictive experiences from enemies that destroy us—to friends that enhance us. 

A bunch of days like that day lately, Right? They can make us better people. They can also make us terrible people. The former is better! Have a listen.

We finish this section on tenacity, with one of the strengths of our community — how human beings change, grow, and develop. We’ve distilled the ancient spiritual practices to an easy-to-remember icon — “Working the Circle.” Have a listen.

We finish this section on tenacity, with one of the strengths of our community — how human beings change, grow, and develop. We’ve distilled the ancient spiritual practices to an easy-to-remember icon — “Working the Circle.” Have a listen.

We’re talking about how carefully considered routines help us live tenaciously — long, sustained effort in the same direction. In the livestream notes last week, one commenter asked in essence, “So yeah. Noticing my habits. Noticing my routines. Got it. But how the h*** do I actually change a routine once it’s set in habit? Let’s talk about that. Have a listen.

Shared routines, carefully considered, allow us to sustain commitments over the long haul, even when we don’t have the internal infrastructure in place, to build new habits. Hey! we can do that with one another. Have a listen.

People of our time, people working on the most important moral issue of our day — racial harm, racial inequity — must be tenacious. We must be tenacious, because racism is tenacious. Have a listen. Another principle in how we develop tenacity.

People of our time will be about the slow, steady, dismantling and rebuilding of systems that create inequity — especially racial inequity — generation after generation. We’ll need to be tenacious! How does that happen? Have a listen.

Crisis evokes “fear-brain.” And fear-brain shuts down the best thinking, big-picture seeing, and sends us into evolutionary instinct, survival mode. The spiritual tradition gives us wisdom and practices, to help us do better.