QOTD

Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son.
The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief.
But the man found his ax while digging in the valley,
and the next time he saw his neighbor's son,
the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
~Lao-tzu

INFJ (Again)

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

Might as well face it... I yam what I yam. An Enneagram 9, INFJ. I kind of like the idea of being Dumbledoresque, though I am keenly aware of his shortcomings, particularly in holding those cards too close to the chest and not doing enough delegation. I think the grand weakness of an INFJ is perfectionism, which causes self doubt and procrastination.

Manifesto

Excerpted from Please Understand Me II
Copyright © 1998 by David Keirsey

If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offsping, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.