Awakened Community: How Individual Virtues Serve the Whole

Community itself is a practice.

It asks us not only to bring our voices, but also our presence, patience, and humility. In this way, community becomes a mirror: showing us where we contract in fear, and where we can open into love.

The Enneagram offers a unique lens for this practice. It teaches that within each fixation — the patterns that keep us stuck (or fixated) — lies a holy path, a virtue.

These virtues are not abstract ideals; they are living medicines that, when shared, weave us into something greater than ourselves.

• Ones bring serenity, the gift of perceiving perfection in all things as they are.

• Twos bring humility, a love that needs nothing in return.

• Threes bring truthfulness, the courage to be real rather than perform.

• Fours bring equanimity, emotional balance and depth of presence.

• Fives bring non-attachment, spaciousness and clarity of wisdom.

• Sixes bring courage, trust that steadies and protects.

• Sevens bring sobriety, joy rooted in presence, not distraction.

• Eights bring innocence, vitality and strength without domination.

• Nines bring right action, a reminder to engage fully and awaken from inertia.

Each of these is medicine. Each is a thread. And together, they form the fabric of an awakened community.

🌿 Reflection for you:
Which of these virtues do you feel called to embody in your community today?