The Inner Journey

The Inner Journey is an invitation to take on self-responsibility with fervor, a call to remember your true nature, and a welcome companion on your path toward self-actualization.

I would like to talk about the first step for a meditator, a seeker. What is the first step? A thinker or a lover follow certain paths but a seeker has to travel on a totally different journey. For a seeker, what is the first step on the journey? The body is the first step for a seeker – but no attention or thought has been given to it. Not only at certain times, but for thousands of years, the body has been neglected. The neglect is of two kinds. Firstly, there are the indulgent people who have neglected the body. They have no experience of life other than eating, drinking and wearing clothes. They have neglected the body, misused it, foolishly wasted it – they have ruined their instrument, their veena. If a musical instrument – for example, a veena – is ruined, music cannot arise out of it. Music is an altogether different thing from the veena – music is one thing, the veena is another, but without the veena music cannot arise.

What is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is its journey in life, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way? These questions are explored here in detail according to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that combines systematic inquiry into personal experience, the practice of traditional spiritual methods, and the application of modern psychological research. The Inner Journey Home is the centerpiece of the Diamond Approach literature, providing a complete overview of the teaching with references to the author's other books for more details on certain topics.

The Quran says, "Wherever you turn, there is the face of God," and, it tells us, "He is with you wherever you are." Muhammad remarked that spiritual virtue is to be found in serving God as if you see him, for, even if you do not see him, he sees you. The understanding that God is always present has animated the personal piety of Muslims from earliest times. These essays by well-known scholars and Sufi teachers as well as excerpts from classical Islamic literature suggest the great variety of routes that Muslims have followed to reach the vision of the Divine in all that exists. Book jacket.

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Everyone has a personal journey to take. Each life is unique in its presence, role and purpose. The Inner Journey offers a proven and powerful model that helps readers to methodically identify the personal journey that lies ahead. Most assessment and occupational approaches relate to the person's characteristics and typology, established from systematic questionnaires. The model developed by author Ilana Weibel in her groundbreaking book harnesses the unique individuality and hidden purpose of the reader, from within their personal fabric of desires and passions. Based upon successful outcomes with hundreds of people, the model presents a series of stages, encompassing processes and questions that carry the individual towards his or her deepest inner workings. There is no typology involved, and no pre-determined categories or pigeon holes to fit into. The work in The Inner Journey is highly personal. The process at every stage is designed to uncover and define the path that will lead to the fulfillment of the reader's uniquely individual life mission.