May 26, 2023

In the Spirituality of the Enneagram, our quest is to return to our soul and eventually reunite with the Divine Source. But the soul has many challenges along the way, the most difficult of which is loss and grief. The ego has its way of dealing with grief as well.

We resolve our hunger when we finally get what we long for: food. But we resolve grief very differently.

May 24, 2023

No one can type us on the Enneagram because no one can accurately tell us who we are. No other person living or dead has walked in our shoes and experienced what we have experienced.

Other people may think they know who we really are, but how could they? They are not privy to our depths. They evaluate only what they observe. However, they are not the only ones in the dark about who we are. Many times we too are unaware of who we are. How can that be?

Make peace with your ego and discover your true path today. We will share Dr. Howell's full daily reflection and prayer on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

May 22, 2023

I read George Orwell's books 1984 and Animal Farm as a teenager in the mid-sixties. I thought Orwell's predictions about society and its evolution were farfetched fantasies and too many years into the future. But I was wrong.

Orwell's book 1984 was published in 1949. This means that Orwell's predictions were to occur only thirty-four years from the book's publication. Thirty-four years is not long in the big scheme of things. And what has happened? The world has changed, and much of the change has been as Orwell predicted and in the period he outlined.