Listen "The Lover and The Beloved with Kelly Deutsch & Omid Safi – Sufi Heart Podcast Ep. 30"
Episode Synopsis
Examining how mysticism hides in plain sight, Omid Safi describes God as love, the lover, and the beloved with guest host Kelly Deutsch.
This episode was originally recorded for the Spiritual Wanderlust Podcast, with Kelly Deutsch. Learn more about this series that explores the wild, untamed frontiers of our interior life at spiritualwanderlust.org/podcast
This time on Sufi Heart, Omid Safi speaks with Kelly about:
Discovering Islamic Mystics
Sufism and having a pure heart
Omid’s life in Iran and exposure to masculine displays of emotion
The mystery of being human, the mystery of God
Heartbreak and experiencing the heart breaking open
Sacred Eroticism and using our senses to experience loveliness
What we can learn from the type of love a mother provides
Radical love and going into the roots
Linking together love and justice
“The Sufis explicitly say something that of course we find also in the Christian mystical contemplative tradition. Mischievously, they almost say there is a holy trinity, a language which most orthodox Muslims would avoid and all Jews would have avoided. But they say the trinity is love, lover, and beloved. God is love, God is the lover, and God is the beloved.” – Omid Safi
This episode was originally recorded for the Spiritual Wanderlust Podcast, with Kelly Deutsch. Learn more about this series that explores the wild, untamed frontiers of our interior life at spiritualwanderlust.org/podcast
This time on Sufi Heart, Omid Safi speaks with Kelly about:
Discovering Islamic Mystics
Sufism and having a pure heart
Omid’s life in Iran and exposure to masculine displays of emotion
The mystery of being human, the mystery of God
Heartbreak and experiencing the heart breaking open
Sacred Eroticism and using our senses to experience loveliness
What we can learn from the type of love a mother provides
Radical love and going into the roots
Linking together love and justice
“The Sufis explicitly say something that of course we find also in the Christian mystical contemplative tradition. Mischievously, they almost say there is a holy trinity, a language which most orthodox Muslims would avoid and all Jews would have avoided. But they say the trinity is love, lover, and beloved. God is love, God is the lover, and God is the beloved.” – Omid Safi
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