What Empire Cannot Erase Highlight Moment Omid Safi speaks to a core teaching in Persian spirituality: Let your heart be where your feet are. A simple phrase, but not an easy one. It asks us to stay present, to not escape into ideas, or spirituality as a way around what is here. To feel what is here. The grief. The longing. The ache of the world as it is. He points to the poetry of Rumi, who reminds us: “Don’t pray for water. Pray for thirst.” Because it is the thirst itself that leads us to the water of life. A path of presence begins when we turn towards right where we are. #OmidSafi #Rumi #PersianWisdom #StayPresent #SpiritualPractice #WhatEmpireCannotErase #SANDCommunity