Posted by Laurence on January 31, 2000 at 05:35:11:
In Reply to: So they let you out of hospital then? Nt posted by Tiggy on January 30, 2000 at 19:33:37:
> > > > Enneagram originally was taught as a path to compassion. In order to take a little step in that direction, could any of you suggest exemples or biographies of very healthy accomplished representatives belonging to each enneatype ( at least one for each)?
> > > Riso's "Personality Types" lists healthy examples for each type and wing. I tried to pick out familiar names. Hope this helps.
> > > 1w9: Thomas Jefferson, Margaret Thatcher
> > > 1w2: Pope John Paul II, Barbara Jordan
> > > 2w1: Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi
> > > 2w3: Luciano Pavarotti, Sammy Davis, Jr.
> > > 3w2: Elvis Presley, Christopher Reeve
> > > 3w4: Bryant Gumbel, Andy Warhol
> > > 4w3: Tennessee Williams, Peter Tchaikovsky
> > > 4w5: Bob Dylan, William Blake
> > > 5w4: Friedrich Nietzsche, D. H. Lawrence
> > > 5w6: Charles Darwin, Karl Marx
> > > 6w5: Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Redford
> > > 6w7: Sally Field, Johnny Carson
> > > 7w6: John F. Kennedy, Robin Williams
> > > 7w8: Barbra Streisand, Joan Rivers
> > > 8w7: Frank Sinatra, Franklin D. Roosevelt
> > > 8w9: Charles De Gaulle, Martin Luther King, Jr.
> > > 9w8: Dwight Eisenhower, Walter Cronkite
> > > 9w1: Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Stewart
Most of those people, if you know about them, were not people you would relate to easely, some were strikingly out of balance, interesting folks, I agree, but would not make the path to compassion easy...Yes, thaks for reminding a truism, heathiness is also subjective, what I meant by it is people that make you feel good and that you want to love.