Aspiration

May the One
To Whom we owe our existence,
Whom we all serve,
Bless our efforts,
Enable us to Love,
And find us worthy
To enter that sacred domain
In this very life.

About Inner Frontier

Inner Frontier presents practical, effective, balanced methods for cultivating presence and opening our heart-mind to the spiritual depths. We offer, in part, a new synthesis and adaptation of practices drawn from the major spiritual traditions. It is our hope and intention that these pages prove useful and beneficial to those who put them into practice.

In addition to publishing InnerFrontier.org, we offer workshops and books.

About the Author of InnerFrontier

The son of Holocaust survivors, Joseph Naft was born in a Displaced Persons' camp in northern Italy in the aftermath of World War II. Recovering from wartime devastation, the family soon immigrated to the United States. That legacy of unspeakable evil engendered Naft’s abiding interest in how the seemingly intractable problem of human violence can be resolved.

While childhood experiences of the spiritual depths set the stage for Naft’s lifelong pursuit of the sacred, he first learned formal meditation practice in 1970. In 1974-75, he studied Buddhist, Sufi and Christian practices during a year in residence at J. G. Bennett's school of spirituality in England. Subsequently, he pursued a range of spiritual practices in Turkey under the guidance of Sufis from the Mevlevi, Helveti, Rifa’i, and Naqshbandi orders. He has also undertaken extensive training in Buddhist meditation. Finally, his Jewish roots remain close to his heart, including the traditional form of Jewish worship as well as Kabbalistic meditation methods.

Through his ongoing spiritual quest, Naft gradually came to see that the ultimate answer to the tragedy of violence must entail a radical change and evolution of the inner life of all humanity. The leading edge of that change lives in those committed to spiritual practice.

Joseph Naft has taught meditation and spiritual practices since 1976. His books include The Sacred Art of Soul Making: Balance and Depth in Spiritual Practice and two novels, Agents of Peace and Restoring Our Soul.

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