Irina Tweedie Quotes

• Irina Tweedie

We are the arbiters of our destiny.

• Irina Tweedie

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

• Irina Tweedie

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

• Irina Tweedie

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

• Irina Tweedie

I suppose because our hearts are made in a certain way we cannot help being what we are.

• Irina Tweedie

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

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

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

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

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

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.