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Snakes in the grass

We are encouraged to follow our passion, but this betrays a misunderstanding of what passions are. The word derives from the Latin for suffer. A Sufi teaching says there are nine of them, each one disguised as a virtue.

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This entry was posted in men's counselling and tagged enneagram, Garden of Eden, Keith Ashford, passion, snakes, suffer, Sufis, unconscious motivation, virtues on October 16, 2019 by Men's Work.

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