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The Pearl Beyond Price—Integration of Personality Into Being: An Object Relations Approach (Vol. 2)
By A. H. Almaas, Lawrence Spiro — 2025
In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development. He also establishes the possibility of attaining inner realization and developing our essential being—“the pearl beyond price”—in the context of living a normal human life.
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In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development. He also establishes the possibility of attaining inner realization and developing our essential being—“the pearl beyond price”—in the context of living a normal human life.
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