Today I read a blog posting from Andrea Smith, which begins, "We don't have to have all the answers or pretend we know the future, all we need to do is show up wherever we are." And there in a nutshell is the rich lesson of Enneatype 5.
So often we say or think or unconsciously believe that specific knowledge is power, that being in the know will sustain us, that to know is to be. It's a mesmerizing concept, but what it says about us is that we are substituting our storehouse of knowledge for the feeling of being deeply alive and immersed in life.
When we simply allow ourselves to breathe and feel the wonder of life in our torsos, it lightens our load and sometimes even enlightens us. Knowledge is not a bad thing, but it is not the be-all and end-all. Knowledge is about life, while breathing and simply being in life are real living.
There is a deep inner "knowledge" that is not intellectual, not conceptual, not about facts and figures, not available in books, on tv, or on the web. It is our knowledge of ourselves, an experiential understanding that is really all we need to be who we are and to know who we are.
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