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Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of, ‘Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.’

By A. H. Almaas

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A. H. Almaas is the pen name of Kuwaiti American author and spiritual teacher Hameed Ali. As the spiritual head of the Ridhwan School, Almaas developed the Diamond Approach, which is a means of spiritual development informed by modern psychological and therapeutic techniques. He has been described as an Integral Theorist and a perennial philosopher.

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