Emptying the Heart of All that Obscures the Inner Beloved

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The episode explores the spiritual journey of emptying the heart to discover the inner beloved, featuring insights from A. H. Almaas.

Ep. 226 (Part 1 of 2) | In Part 1 of Deep Transformation’s second Path of Love Series dialogue with A. H. Almaas , we learn what a spiritual journey on the path of love entails: particularly, emptying our heart so it can discover the deepest inner truth, the inner beloved. “Most of the path of love has to do with emptying the heart with love and yearning combined to burn through all the idols which stand for the inner beloved,” Hameed says. “The heart knows it loves something deeper than itself… and it pains it that it is separate from it.” There are other paths of awakening, for example, the Buddhist way is largely the path of mind, but for Hameed it was the path of heart that took center stage and revealed its secrets. The path of love is not methodical or intentional—it just happens, Hameed continues. The beloved works on the heart, works on the soul, and throws itself nearer—and it’s in this nearness that you encounter all the obstacles that keep you from uniting with the beloved. Longtime practitioner, co-host Roger Walsh mentions that the exercises included in Hameed’s latest book, The Inner Beloved , intended to help us remove our blocks to perceiving the inner beloved…

People in this episode

Host: Roger Walsh

Guest: A. H. Almaas

Topics covered

• spiritual journey
• path of love
• inner truth
• heart
• awakening
• self-discovery

Keywords

• spiritual journey
• inner beloved
• heart
• awakening
• love
• self-discovery
• Hameed

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Inner Beloved

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