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Sufi Heart with Omid Safi

Be Here Now Network

The Sufi Heart podcast with Omid Safi features teachings and stories about a sacred tradition of love, one that manifests outwardly as justice and inwardly as tenderness.Drawing primarily on the wisdom of the Islamic tradition as well as the legacies of the Civil Rights movements and other wisdom teachings, Omid invites you to a meditation on the transformative power of love and recalling the necessity of linking healing our own hearts with healing the world.Omid Safi is director of Duke

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Ep. 38 -The Mystical Teachings of Ibn ‘Arabi

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2025/07/14

Omid Safi discusses Sufi teachings from one of the greatest muslim mystics, an Andalusian sage named Ibn ‘Arabi."When Ibn 'Arabi comes, he sits with all of himself. When he's listening, he listens with all of himself. When it's time to go, he gets up with all of himself. All of him is here, so I can give him all of the love. That's such a practice, and it's such a challenge for all of us who are always distracted. A lot of Sufi practice is really this art of being present." – Omid Safi This week

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Ep. 37 – The Path of Love, Harmony & Beauty

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2025/06/10

Illuminating Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings on radical love, Omid Safi leads listeners down the Sufi path of love, harmony, and beauty.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. This time on Sufi Heart, Omid provides a lesson on:The Sufi tradition of radical love, universal harmony, and experiencing beauty Hazrat Inayat Khan’s timely and timeless teachings Music as a sacred bridge between

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01:11:49

Ep. 36 – Re-Enchanting the World with Joshua Michael...

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2025/04/10

Re-enchanting the world with God, the beloved, Omid Safi and teacher Joshua Michael Schrei explore the push-and-pull relationship we have with the divine. Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. This week on Sufi Heart, Omid and Joshua get into:The many types of love we experience with the divine How the seeker was first being sought by GodThe possibility of tying together the sensual and

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Ep. 35 – Deepening Faith Through Inter-Spirituality...

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2025/03/05

Omid Safi sits down with Mike Petrow and Drew Jackson from The Center for Action and Contemplation, founded by Franciscan friar Richard Rohr, to explore how a unified approach to spirituality can deepen our faith.This podcast was originally published on the Everything Belongs Podcast, produced by The Center for Action and Contemplation (CFAC). The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) is an educational nonprofit introducing seekers to the contemplative Christian path of transformation

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Ep. 34 – The Mystery of Love with James Cooke PhD

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2025/01/16

Getting down to the basics of Sufism, James Cooke and Omid Safi discuss the mystery of love and our enmeshment with God.This time on the Sufi Heart podcast, Omid Safi and James Cooke discuss:Sufism and mystical IslamGetting closer to a divine realityTypes of love within SufismRecognizing that we are interwoven with all thingsPure love as the antidote of egoHow we are enmeshed with GodMaking our daily life our practiceThe diversity within traditions of IslamMisrepresentations of Islam in mainstream

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Ep. 33 – When Religion Is A Stranger

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2024/11/08

Exploring what it means to practice Islam in a world filled with evil, Omid Safi explains how strangeness can bring us back home to God.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. In this episode, Omid Safi holds a talk on:Sacred sounds and the movement of the heavenly spheresHeavy hearts from global suffering and genocideThe counterculture of Islam when it beganLooking into our own communities

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Ep. 32 – Star Wars, Yoda & Sufism

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2024/06/06

Omid Safi discusses how modern myths like Star Wars can connect us to Sufism and the mystery of the universe.This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. This time on Sufi Heart, Omid Safi has a discussion on:The story of Moses in the Qur’anMoses’ teacher, ‘the green one’, and Yoda from Star WarsHow myth-makers revive spiritual traditionsThe mythic language found in music and moviesHow Taoists,

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Ep. 31 – Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sufi Path of Love

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2024/05/10

Sharing insights from the path of love, Omid Safi discusses the teachings of Sufi philosopher, Hazrat Inayat Khan.Today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. In this episode of Sufi Heart, Omid Safi explores:The universality of loveComing back to the centerExperiencing God directlySigns of God in scripture, nature, and our own soulsHaving an open heart for all of humanityPracticing love as a

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Ep. 30 – The Lover and The Beloved with Kelly Deutsch

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2024/01/23

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 MysticsSufism and having a pure heartOmid’s life in Iran and

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Ep. 29 – "Islam, Iman, Ihsan", Love's Journey in...

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2023/09/05

Pushing beyond the bare minimum of religiosity, Omid Safi inspires listeners to deepen their faith into an ecstatic adoration of God. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode of Sufi Heart, Omid Safi elucidates :Islam and the unity of AllahIman as faith and Ihsan as virtueSpirituality and AestheticsDoing what is required of us through religionHow Habib (the chosen

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00:56:47

Ep. 28 – Rumi and the Path of Radical Love with Taya Mâ

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2023/08/07

In this interview from the 2023 Mystics Summit, Omid Safi joins Taya Ma for a conversation about Rumi, his main teachings, and how he’s situated on the wider Path of Radical Love. This interview is part of the 2023 Mystics Summit a free online event. For more information, please visit mysticssummit.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved. In this episode, Omid Safi and Taya Mâ talk about:Rumi’s background and why his real legacy is more than just his poetry,

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Ep. 27 – The Rhythm of Expansion and Contraction

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2023/05/12

Omid dives into the ocean of love, contemplating how the nature of the waves washing ashore and receding back mirrors the human experience. This special episode is from Sharon Salzberg's Living an Authentic Life Summit and is hosted by Andres Gonzalez from the Holistic Life Foundation. Lifetime access to the full summit, featuring all 30 speakers and five days of content, is available here: Living an Authentic Life Summit: A Journey to Inner Peace, Freedom and Joy In this episode of Sufi Heart,

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Ep. 26 – Spirituality and Conflict Transformation

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2022/10/27

Omid returns with a timely and flowing discussion on the connection between spirituality and conflict transformation. Join Omid on a heart-centered and spiritually-focused educational tour of Turkey coming up in June 2023: Illuminated Tours - Turkey See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ep. 25 – Spirituality of Seasons

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2022/04/13

In this episode of Sufi Heart, Omid Safi discusses the spirituality of seasons. We learn to look at Islamic cultures for inspiration on attuning to the sanctity of nature. “We have gained a lot in terms of productivity, but we have also lost a lot in terms of the rhythm of our life, the attunement to nature, and the ability to live a harmonious life”. —Omid Safi See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ep. 24 – Mary and Jesus: A Sufi Perspective on the...

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2021/12/18

Omid Safi offers us a sense of the significance of Christmas, the birth of Jesus, and the sacred experience of Mary in the Islamic tradition. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ep. 23 – Lessons for the Heart: Remembering the...

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2021/11/17

In this deeply personal episode of Sufi Heart, Omid Safi shares some lessons for the heart by remembering the events of 9/11, and reflects on how we can carry these teachings forward. This talk was originally recorded by: Hicksville Public Schools This podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at

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00:43:52

Ep. 22 – Spirituality and the Marketplace with...

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2021/05/01

Journalist, Abdhul-Rehman Malik, from This Being Human Podcast interviews Omid on the commercialization of spirituality, Rumi's Guest House, reframing emotions, and embracing radical love like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award-winning journalist, educator, and organizer. He is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio, offering contemporary perspectives on spirituality. His recent documentary work includes the "The Muhammadan Bean: The Secret History of Islam and Coffee." Since

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Ep. 21 – Anti-Racism As A Spiritual Practice with...

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2021/03/25

In this special episode, Sikh Activist, Simran Jeet Singh, joins Omid Safi for conversation exploring anti-racism as a spiritual practice. Recognized among TIME Magazine’s 16 people fighting for a more equal America, Simran Jeet Singh is Senior Adviser for Equity and Inclusion at YSC Consulting and a Visiting Professor at Union Seminary. He is a 2020 Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations, a Racial Equity Media Fellow with Interfaith Youth Core, and a Senior Fellow for the Sikh

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Ep. 20 – Love, Justice, and Tenderness with Ankhet Rumi

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2020/11/10

Ankhet Rumi and Omid join together to explore embodying truth through teaching, fighting for social justice, the contemporary American Saints of the Freedom Movement, working with anger, & the divine Sufi poetry and wisdom of Rumi. Returning from a short hiatus, Omid is back with the Sufi Heart podcast, welcoming friend, poet, artist, and fellow podcaster, Ankhet Rumi, to the show. This special episode will be dual-casted, not only appearing here on the Be Here Now Network, but also on Ankhet's

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Ep. 19 – Expanding Our Circle of Compassion

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi ·

2020/06/03

Omid Safi shares wisdom on expanding our circle of compassion, redefining success, the dis-ease of busyness, and how love is synonymous with social justice. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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