![]() 75: The Test of the Acceptance of Death.59: What is Nearer-The Source or the Delta?.55: One Must Be Able to Sleep in the Street.49: A Saint Always Has a Light over His Head.40: There Is No Luck, Only the Divine Grace.39: "And the Grace of God Will Be with You".20: Our People are Tested with Fire and Spirit.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.” from the Foreword 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. Written in diary form, this title has already sold over 30,000 copies worldwide and is now being published through The Golden Sufi Center. Her story and experience testify that this teaching system can still be powerfully transformative today in our modern world.įirst published in its abridged form as Chasm of Fire (which has sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into six languages), Daughter of Fire is a unique account of a spiritual training with a Sufi Master and is the most detailed account of the relationship between disciple and teacher that exists in Western Literature. Tweedie is the first Western woman to be trained in this ancient yogic lineage. the agonies, the resistance, the long and frightening bouts with the purifying forces of Kundalini, the perseverance, the movements towards surrender, the longing, and finally the all-consuming love.įrom a psychological viewpoint, the diary maps the process of ego dissolution, gradually unveiling the openness and love that reside beneath the surface of the personality. This diary spans five years, making up an amazing record of spiritual transformation. He predicted that one day it would become a book and would benefit people around the world. Her teacher's first request of her was to keep a complete diary of her spiritual training-everything, all the difficult parts, even all the doubts. Little did Irina Tweedie know that her trip to India in 1959, at the age of fifty-two, would mysteriously lead her to a Sufi Master, and set her upon a journey to the "heart of hearts," the Sufi path of realization. proof the eternal flame of the soul still can be awakened in people of the modern age, like it has been in others since the early beginning of consciousness.” SUFISM JOURNAL a log of self-discovery, striking in its blatant honesty. “I am touched again and again by a constantly moving balance between powerful energies, of which one, the harder one, is truth, the other, the tender one, is love.” WERNER H. a magnificent and great work” JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE, author, The Magical Child Matures The Guru-disciple relationship is detailed more thoroughly than in any other literature of any period. Far more, the spiritual path is revealed here as seldom before. an engrossing personal story a rare insight into the closed world of the Sufi. “This book is a testimony for great courage and integrity.” MARIE LOUISE VON FRANZ, Jungian psychologist
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