Path of LivingThe sixteen types
Theme

The Haven

Stabilizer Self-sufficient Self Arrive

Think of a welder who paid off his home in eighteen years, told no one, and cut his hours.

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The shape

This shape aims at a settled place of one's own, such as a home that is paid for or enough money put aside, and it treats reaching that place as the point. Once there, the person stays and rests, and the safety is complete even if no one else knows about it.

In ordinary life

Lives with this shape

None of these people took the reading. The record of each shows the shape.

Kamo no Chōmei (about 1155 to 1216)

At about fifty, Kamo no Chōmei left court life in Kyoto and took Buddhist vows, and at about sixty he built a hut ten feet square in the hills at Hino, where in 1212 he wrote the Hōjōki, his account of living there. A small, safe place built on purpose and then lived in, by a man whose book records the fire and the earthquake that brought down far larger houses, shows the shape from outside.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Charlotte Lucas (fiction)

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813), Charlotte Lucas accepts Mr. Collins and tells Elizabeth that she asks only a comfortable home. At the parsonage the women sit in a room at the back, which keeps her husband in his own book room at the front, and Elizabeth gives her credit for the arrangement. A secure home chosen plainly for what it offers, then arranged so it can be lived in quietly, shows the shape from outside.

Source: gutenberg.org

Closest neighbor

The Gardener shares three of these sides and differs on what done means: it has no finish to reach and lives in the daily care itself, while this shape reaches its safe place and rests there.

One side away

Each shares three sides with this shape. On the right is the side it has instead.

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