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Ep. 227 (Part 2 of 2) | In Part 2 of Deep Transformation’s second Path of Love Series dialogue, A. H. Almaas explains that the inner beloved is at work in our hearts, pulling us irresistibly nearer as we venture forward on the path of love. The force comes and pulls us, he says, melts us and overwhelms us—sometimes with wounding and sometimes with ecstasy. Our great love for the inner beloved ultimately dissolves our attachments to other, smaller beloveds, which can be big things—family, friends, teachers—or little things: ice cream, cake, our favorite movie star. But our heart isn’t going to be happy until it meets the beloved face to face, Hameed assures us. Then, after emptying our heart, when we finally behold the inner beloved, love becomes the nature of the whole universe. Now our relationships are expressions of the inner beloved, and we find we love everything.

What makes the Diamond Approach’s path of love unique is that it uses love and inquiry combined to penetrate the obstacles that arise along the path. Thus, obstacles are not only burnt away through sheer devotion but also understood and recognized for what they are. Hameed also explains the difference between spiritual poverty of the soul and mystical poverty of the heart, between realization of the absolute via the path of mind versus the path of love, that nonduality is an outer expression of the inner beloved, and describes his own astonishing experience of “thunder and lightning in the heart” on this path. Towards the end of the conversation, Hameed reminds us that when we feel love, that is the beginning. Take the love itself rather than the object of the love, he says, and let it get bigger, let it get deeper, see where it takes you. Recorded January 8, 2026.

“The beloved is the source of love and what loves everything.”

Topics & Time Stamps – Part 2

1. The path of love also has many joys and rewards (00:30)
2. The experience of the absolute on this path is distinctly about love (02:41)
3. The Diamond Approach’s inquiry practice allows us to understand the obstacles that arise (05:11)
4. Relationship can be a path on its own, but it’s not the same as the path of love, where outer relationships are disengaged from (09:30)
5. Mystical poverty: when the heart has nothing left in it, only the inner beloved (12:53)
6. The inner beloved is a jealous lover (13:44)
7. When we finally behold the inner beloved, we find we love everything (14:18)
8. Hameed’s experience of thunder & lightning in the heart (15:23)
9. The inner beloved is the source of love, the source of the universe (17:10)
10. Nonduality is an outer expression of the inner beloved (17:40)
11. Love has a magnetic component to it; the inner beloved wants to be one with us (21:19)
12. Mystical poverty is a relinqui