A.H. Almaas on Discovering our Essence

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A. H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali. He is the founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization which is a contemporary teaching that developed within the context of both ancient spiritual teachings and modern depth psychology theories. He has authored eighteen books about spiritual realization, including the Diamond Heart series, The Pearl Beyond Price, The Void, The Alchemy of Freedom, and his newest book, Love Unveiled: Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart. In this episode, A.H. Almaas and Eric explore how to use curiosity, inquiry, courage, kindness, and love to discover our true nature, which he refers to as our “essence”. It is a deep and freeing approach to achieve healing and wholeness within ourselves. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, A.H. Almaas and I Discuss Discovering our Essence and… His newest book, Love Unveiled: Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart The Diamond Approach What he means when he talks about our “essence” The difference between personality and essence Seeing our children’s essential nature and loving them for it The Theory of Holes The role of inquiry in feeling your emotion Accessing your emotions by seeing what’s in the way of feeling them Principles that ground us in inquiry so we might see the totality of our experience in the present moment The difference between and integration of psychology and spirituality The result of staying with our direct, immediate experience How wanting to change ourselves interferes with our ability to study and learn about ourselves Including our desires in our inquiry That “allowing things to be exactly as they are” is the highest teaching there is Becoming consistently curious about what’s happening How to learn to stay with emotional pain The similarities between sadness and kindness Inquiring about our essence A.H. Almaas Links: diamondapproach.com Twitter Instagram Facebook BLUblox offers high-quality lenses that filter blue light, reduce glare, and combat the unhealthy effects of our digital life. Visit BLUblox.com to get free shipping and also 15% off with Promo Code: WOLF Talkspace: the online therapy company that lets you connect with a licensed therapist from anywhere at any time. Therapy on demand. Non-judgemental, practical help when you need it at a fraction of the cost of traditional therapy. Visit www.talkspace.com and enter Promo Code: WOLF to get $100 off your first month. SimpliSafe: Get comprehensive protection for your entire home with security cameras, alarms, sensors as well as fire, water, and carbon monoxide alerts. Visit simplisafe.com/wolf for free shipping and a 60-day money-back guarantee. If you enjoyed this conversation with A.H. Almaas on Discovering Our Essence, you might also enjoy these other episodes: A.H. Almaas (2016) James Finley Henry Shukman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We all have emotions, but that we can access them or not, this and other stories.
0:04.6	So the beginning of the path is learning to access our emotion by seeing what's in the way of them.
0:18.4	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:20.4	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:25.0	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:30.6	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:34.8	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.
0:39.6	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:42.4	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:46.0	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:49.4	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:54.1	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:58.5	How they feed their good wolf.
1:14.9	Thanks for joining us.
1:16.2	Our guest on this episode is AH Almas, which is the pen name of Hamid Ali,
1:22.0	who has been on the show once before.
1:23.8	He's the creator of the Diamond approach to self-realization.
1:27.6	The Diamond approach is a contemporary teaching that developed within the context of both
1:32.1	ancient spiritual teachings and modern psychology theories.
1:36.1	He has authored 18 books about spiritual realization,
1:39.6	including the Diamond Heart series, the Pearl Beyond price,
1:43.0	the void, the new love unveiled, and many others.
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