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In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work ...
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But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity--a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in your labors. The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius--your guardian deity, the conduit of your inspiration. Which is to say, the Romans didn't believe that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius;..
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Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening,
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lsh`wr bldhnb lys sw~ khd`h mn l'n lj`lk t`tqdyna bi'nki tuHrzyna tqdman 'khlqyan ,l tq`y fy hdh lfkh y`zyzty
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Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.
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Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction--nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat.
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This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.
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exhaustion
life
women
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How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always lean on during a metaphysical crisis, or a moment of doubt about their relevancy - If I have done nothing else in this life, then at least I have raised my children well. But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continui..
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elizabeth-gilbert
memoir
virginia-woolf
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She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
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If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I want to have a lasting experience of God', I told him. 'Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.
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I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.
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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time--when pursued like a bandit--will behave like one; always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't...
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It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.
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I have a friend, an aspiring musician, whose sister said to her one day, quite reasonably, "What happens if you never get anything out of this? What happens if you pursue your passion forever, but success never comes? How will you feel then, having wasted your entire life for nothing?" My friend, with equal reason, replied, "If you can't see what I'm already getting out of this, then I'll never be able to explain it to you." When it's for l..
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An abiding stereotype of creativity is that it turns people crazy. I disagree: Not expressing creativity turns people crazy. ("If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is within you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you."--Gospel of Thomas.)"
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What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it's sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life.
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lyki 'n tt`lmy kyfa tkhtryn 'fkrk ,tmman km tkhtrynamlbsk kul ywm
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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You are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, regardless of the outcome. You will never lose trust in the creative process, even when you don't understand the outcome.
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Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.
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I agree--the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort." (53)"
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming i..
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The Buddha referred to married people as "householders." He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I'm dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance."
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But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
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When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere - wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers.
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Genetic randomness had already determined how much talent I'd been allotted, and destiny's randomness would account for my share of luck. The only piece I had any control over was my discipline. Recognizing that, it seemed like the best plan would be to work my ass off. That was the only card I had to play, so I played it hard.
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I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stubbornly walk into that room, regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it; you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with..
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creativity
hard-work
individuality
inspirational
motivation
pride
support
work-ethic
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Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.
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If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels--that's creative living.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I found that eating alone by the window in a quiet restaurant is one of life's greatest secret pleasures.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. This act, the act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth--not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity?
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had e..
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Khorata misliat, che srodna dusha e onzi, koito idealno ti pasva, i vsichki iskat tova. No istinskata srodna dusha e ogledalo -- tak'v chovek ti pokazva vsichko, koeto te zad'rzha, nasochva k'm teb sobstvenoto ti vnimanie, za da mozhesh da promenish zhivota si. Istinski srodnata dusha e mozhe bi nai-vazhniiat chovek, koito niakoga shche sreshchnesh, zashchoto s'baria stenite ti i te shamarosva, za da se s'budish. No da zhiveesh s's srodna d..
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I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating I love Italy.
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