Irina Tweedie Quote

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.

The chasm of fire: a woman's experience of liberation through the teachings of a Sufi master (ed. Element Books Ltd, 1988)