A. H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali, founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, a contemporary teaching that developed within the context of both ancient spiritual teachings and modern depth psychology theories. Almaas has authored eighteen books about spiritual realization, including the Diamond Heart series, The Pearl Beyond Price, The Void, and The Alchemy of Freedom.
He is the founder of the Ridhwan School for Spiritual Development, an inner work school devoted to the realization of True Nature. The orientation of the school is directed toward guiding students to realize their true nature to the fullest realization and further still to endless enlightenment.
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So we’re not talking about intimacy from the usual perspective of two people interacting and coming closer. True, absolute intimacy is how love is experienced when there are not two, when we are in this place where there is no distance and no separateness. When you know that nothingness is our nature and inner reality, we can’t say that there is one person loving the other. There’s just a sense of tenderness, sweetness, delicacy, and appreciativeness that isn’t directed one way or another—it just is.
This is something we learn every time we experience our true nature in its different manifestations and dimensions. We always come closer to this truth—that when we experience true nature, we feel a deep knowing of other people and the world because we know it all from the inside, at the depth of its nature. And now we’re reaching this mystery at the level of the absolute dimension of true nature, where there are no objects and no concepts—only nothingness.