Top 11 Quotes by Irina Tweedie

I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I

I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.

Irina Tweedie

Teacher, Yoga, Teaching

There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to you, fulfills you utterly and yet there is nothing there. You flow out like a river without diminishing. This is the great mystical experience, the great ecstasy.

Irina Tweedie

Love You, Mystical Experiences, Oneness

I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.

Irina Tweedie

Names, Oneness, People

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I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

Irina Tweedie

Teacher, Heart, World

God is love, the human being is all love, only the human has forgotten it long ago.

Irina Tweedie

Long Ago, Forgotten, God Is Love

Source: www.goldensufi.org

Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

Irina Tweedie

Yoga, Teaching, Differences

Source: www.goldensufi.org

We are the arbiters of our destiny.

Irina Tweedie

Destiny, Arbiter, Our Destiny

Source: www.goldensufi.org

When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

Irina Tweedie

Deep Love, Being Real, Beloved

Source: www.goldensufi.org

The goal of every yoga is to lead a guided life.

Irina Tweedie

Yoga, Goal

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Irina Tweedie (1992). “Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork & Jungian Psychology”, p.236, The Golden Sufi Center

I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!

Irina Tweedie

Vegetarian, Sometimes, Goodness

Source: www.goldensufi.org