Enneagram: Type FIVE: The Need to Know
The essential core of the FIVE is the soul’s capacity to be illuminated and to illuminate, to make things clear. When you’re clear, the world becomes more transparent. You notice the littlest things. You’re more awake to everything. That illumination is exactly the same as what we call recognition. Whenever you have an “Ah ha” it’s not thinking, exactly; it’s a recognition of truth. It fills your whole body. We all experience that; if you’re a FIVE, you live for that. It’s your specialty... As a FIVE takes that risk, comes out of hiding and starts to make contact, [that contact] begins to restore the real knowing, giving birth to the virtue of the FIVE, which I call non-attachment. (It’s actually not “detachment,” which means cutting off, the schizoid state we experience in the middle of our compulsion.) Non-attachment happens when you are in touch with the eternity of consciousness, of the divine Presence, when it’s here illuminating things for you and you become profoundly aware of how fleeting everything is.That non-attachment actually becomes a liberation of the heart. You’re not clinging to anything nor avoiding anything; you’re holding the world just as it is and in love with it. That’s non-attachment. It’s a clean-heartedness.