Oprah Winfrey Inspired by Islamic and Buddhist Faiths,
Admits to Reading Daily Sufi Word
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By Christine Thomasos , Christian Post Reporter
October 16, 2012|4:07 pm
Oprah Winfrey recently
shared her morning routine with Harper's Baazar magazine which includes a
breakfast of fruit and almond milk, a workout and inspiration from Sufism, or Islamic
mysticism.
Winfrey told the publication that she wakes up at around
5:45 a.m. and reads a passage from TheDailyLove.com and The Bowl of Saki, which
she describes as "like the Sufi daily word."
Although the 58-year-old media proprietor has been vocal
about reading the Bible and being a Christian in the past, she has also spent
time speaking about Sufism lately.
Last August, Winfrey interviewed author and Sufi teacher
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee for OWN's "Super Soul Sunday" program. On her
network's YouTube page, she labeled a preview to the show as "Oprah's
Interest in Sufism" and tweeted about her love for the spiritual belief.
"Love Sufism …'the divinity of the human soul,'"
Winfrey tweeted last September. "Within Our spiritual heart there is a
direct connection to God."
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, "Sufism is
the esoteric dimension of the Islamic faith, the spiritual path to mystical
union with God. It is influenced by other faiths, such as Buddhism, and reached
its peak in the 13th century."
While Winfrey recently admitted to an interest and daily
reading of a Sufi daily word, she has maintained that she is a practicing
Christian. During a broadcast of "Oprah's Lifeclass" program in
April, Winfrey spoke about her Christianity while having respect for all
faiths.
"I am a Christian, that is my faith. I'm not asking you
to be a Christian. If you want to be one I can show you how. But it is not
required," she said on the broadcast. "I have respect for all faiths.
All faiths. But what I'm talking about is not faith or religion. I'm talking
about spirituality."
In the episode about "Spiritual Solutions" which
featured new age spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, Winfrey also described her
definition of spirituality.
"My definition [of spirituality] is living your life
with an open heart, through love... allowing yourself to align with the values
of tolerance, acceptance, of harmony, of cooperation and reverence for
life," Winfrey said. "There is a force energy consciousness divine
thread, I believe, that connects spiritually to all of us, to something greater
than ourselves."
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