The enneagram quote below is from Russell Targ’s Limitless Mind  —

We have the opportunity to experience a self, but that is not who we really are. In fact, in the teaching of the enneagram, a traditional Sufi analysis of character traits and behavior, the self or ego is a fixation from the past; it is conditioned existence — exactly who we are not.21 The enneagram, brought to us in the 1970s, attempts to make us aware of the extent to which we live in a trancelike attachment to our story of who we think we are. Our “business card,” over which we lavish so much attention, is really a kind of “story card” that we give people to tell them who we think we are. If we believe that story, it can cause us a lot of suffering.

Targ, Russell (2008-10-01). Limitless Mind (p. 19). New World Library. Kindle Edition.