Tweedie Quotes & Sayings

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

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open. — Alec-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. — Irina Tweedie

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment. — Alec-Tweedie

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books. — Alec-Tweedie

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket. — Alec-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

Writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me. — Jill Tweedie

We are the arbiters of our destiny. — Irina Tweedie

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

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time. — Jill Tweedie

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

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race. — Jill Tweedie

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations. — Alec-Tweedie

Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late — Jill Tweedie

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ... — Alec-Tweedie

Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian. — Alec-Tweedie

Sim would begin: 'there was a herd in Manar, they ca'd him Tweedie - ye'll mind Tweedie, Can'lish?' 'Fine, that!' said Candlish. 'Aweel, Tweedie had a dog - ' The story I have forgotten; I dare say it was dull, and I suspect it was not true; but indeed, my travels with the drove rendered me indulgent, and perhaps even credulous, in the matter of dog stories. — Anonymous

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women. — Jill Tweedie

I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right. — Jill Tweedie

No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like. — Alec-Tweedie

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. — Alec-Tweedie

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil
far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race. — Jill 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

Theatrical work means too much work or none. — Alec-Tweedie

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

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. — Alec-Tweedie

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy. — Alec-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

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

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie