By making intimate contact with the truth of your everyday life, you can know the depths of who and what you are. You can learn to invite Being itself to provide you with profound guidance and understanding for your inner journey of self-discovery. You can come home to the still sweet simplicity of spirit while living in today’s complex world.

The Diamond Approach is the spiritual teaching, the path, and the method of the Ridhwan School. The Ridhwan Foundation is the nonprofit spiritual organization (incorporated as a church) established to support and preserve the integrity of the Diamond Approach teaching. Its educational branch is the Diamond Heart and Training Institute (DHAT), which is responsible for making the teaching available to the public; for training teacher/ministers; and for supporting the publication of teaching material through books and audiovisuals."

On this site you can learn more about the opportunities for studying this spiritual teaching by making a selection from the above menu at Ridhwan School, about the founder, Hameed Ali, at his pen name, A.H. Almaas, and about published material on the Diamond Approach at Books/Audio/Visual. New/Notable is a list of items of interest current within the present two months: workshops, new books, talks and other activities.

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