Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
by Irina Tweedie
Blue Dolphin Publishing, Nevada City, California, 1986. 822 pp.
Irina Tweedie’s
Daughter of Fire remains vivid in my mind even though I read it nearly 10 years ago. In this substantial 800-page journal, the reader travels along with a woman irresistibly drawn to the spiritual path. Tweedie, 52 years old when the journal opens, finds her teacher in India — Bhai Sahib, an elder Sufi master. Throughout the course of her daily writings, Tweedie invites the reader to a close-up look at her most intimate thoughts and agonizing struggles as she surrenders to the Guru-disciple relationship and finds ultimate transformation. Her teachings are exemplified in a short letter I received from her in 1990: “My dearest, if you meditate, pray and fill your heart with love to God and His creation, you will become a student of HIM as we are all following this path.”
A shorter version,
Chasm of Fire, is also available in the Center library.
— reviewed by Merry Song
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