Sufi Heart with Omid Safi Ep. 6 – Practice of Compassion
Dec 27, 2018
Leslie Langbert, a licensed clinical social worker and mindfulness facilitator, engages with Omid Safi about the transformative power of compassion and love. They explore how Omid's book, Radical Love, emerged from personal love letters, emphasizing the mystical teachings of Rumi on unity and brokenness. The conversation highlights compassion as a communal ethic, the beauty of everyday sacred love, and how heartfelt connections can break down barriers. Insightful and reflective, they discuss living with an open heart to foster deeper connections.
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Love Letters Became A Book
- Omid Safi describes creating Radical Love as a series of love letters he translated and sent to his future wife over years.
- The book grew organically from their exchanges and felt like joyful sharing rather than work.
Break Open, Not Just Break
- Omid Safi contrasts mere breaking with breaking open, framing heartbreak as a potential expansion.
- He invites suffering to become a transformative widening of the heart rather than just damage.
You And I As A Limiting Myth
- Rumi's 'you and I' myth warns that rigid self-boundaries produce a zero-sum notion of love and lead to brokenness.
- Omid reframes love as shared participation in a larger, infinite ocean rather than a finite possession.
