About Don Richard Riso: Don Richard Riso was an American teacher of the Enneagram of Personality. His books are considered[by whom?] as core literature of modern Enneagram teaching and have been translated into several languages.
If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.
The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself,...
[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.