Enneagram and Prayer: Discovering Our True Selves Before God

Enneagram and Prayer: Discovering Our True Selves Before God by Metz, Barbara. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780871932594.

We have learned to cherish the wisdom of the East in a particular way. The Enneagram is among the treasures we have encountered. The Enneagram study is linked in strong ways to the Moslem tradition and, in particular to the Sufis, although it is very possible that it pre-dates them. This simple, little work is our attempt to synthesize our experience, learnings, and reflection in a way that will be useful in a practical way. This is not a book to be read through and put down. It is a manual that can be used as a guide to ways of centering, to new forms of prayer. And it also offers scripture passages corresponding to each of the personality types. The book is intended for who seriously undertake the inner journey and seek a greater transparency before God. It is also intended for retreat and spiritual directors as an aid to their understanding of the world of their directees.