1. A Curious Theory of Unknown Origin
2. Finding Your Type
3. Type Eight: The Challenger
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of the way." —General George S.
Patton Jr.
4. Type Nine: The Peacemaker
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." —Virginia Woolf
5. Type One: The Perfectionist
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the
people." —Anne Lamott
6. Type Two: The Helper
"I want you to be happy, but I want to be the reason."
—Anonymous
7. Type Three: The Performer
"The real question is, can you love the real me? . . . Not the
perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but
who I really am." —Christine Feehan
8. Type Four: The Romantic
"If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an
outsider, it never quite leaves you." —Tim Burton
9. Type Five: The Investigator
"I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.." —George Carlin
10. Type Six: The Loyalist
"There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared
for the worst."
—Stephen King
11. Type Seven: The Enthusiast
"Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings!"
—Peter Pan
12. So Now What? The Beginning of Love
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be
perfectly themselves." —Thomas Merton
Acknowledgments
Notes
Ian Morgan Cron is a bestselling author, nationally recognized speaker, Enneagram teacher, counselor, Dove Award–winning songwriter, and Episcopal priest. His books include the novel Chasing Francis and spiritual memoir Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me. His most recent book is The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self. He and his wife, Anne, live in Nashville, Tennessee.
Suzanne Stabile is a highly sought-after speaker, teacher, and internationally recognized Enneagram master teacher, having conducted over five hundred workshops. She is the author of The Path Between Us and she is creator and host of The Enneagram Journey podcast. Along with her husband, Rev. Joseph Stabile, she is cofounder of Life in the Trinity Ministry. Their ministry home, the Micah Center, is located in Dallas, Texas.
"A true understanding of your Enneagram type will tell you more
about your financial strengths and foibles than you can imagine. .
. . I find The Road Back to You to be the most readable and
applicable book I've read yet on the subject."
*Tim Maurer*
"An aid to those seeking to identify personality types, with a
little bit of spirituality on the side."
*Sandra Colllins*
"Cron and Stabile walk through the Enneagram's nine different
personality types and their distinct ways of seeing the world,
showing how each one has a potentially infinite number of
expressions, strengths, and weaknesses. Cron describes his own
Enneagram experience as a feeling of waking up after having been
asleep for a long time. He explains that in catching a glimpse of
the person he was created to be, he began to see himself with the
same delight, pride, and expectation with which God sees him, and
to sense the immediacy of God's grace. 'In the spiritual life
that's no small thing,' he writes."
"Cron brings his witty, energetic voice to this collaboration with
Stabile, a retreat director and expert on the Enneagram—a system of
personality typology with roots in Christian and Islamic mysticism.
The beauty of the Enneagram is its charity: the system clearly
names the flaws as well as the virtues of each personality type.
The Enneagram also counsels humility and acknowledges its own
limits ('[The Enneagram] is not infallible or inerrant,' writes
Cron and Stabile)—a welcome modesty in religious understanding
today."
*Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW, August 8, 2016*
"The Road Back to You is a great read for anyone who wants to grow
in their knowledge of themselves and how it affects all your
relationships. I would also highly recommend it for anyone who
works with other people. It has the potential to give you a whole
new understanding of the people you interact with on a daily
basis."
*Nathan McCorkindale*
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