Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day . The Enneagram tradition defines personality as the lifetime accumulation of mental and emotional patterns which constitute the persona, the person an individual believes himself or herself to be and presents to the world. These patterns include, but are not limited to, habitual ways of thinking, believing, perceiving, and feeling.
Personality is fixated.
Personality reacts to the ever changing outer environment with identifiable, predictable and conditioned reactions. Essence flows, is changeable and responds freshly and appropriately to ever changing conditions in the outer world. Copyright 1996 Jack C. High and Associates. All rights reserved.