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Not many people know how to be satisfied.
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Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And seco..
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food
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pleasure
travel
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The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.
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spirituality
upanishads
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failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before yo..
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But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress"
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Let people have their opinions. More than that--let people love their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business.
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There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
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love
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we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right--not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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most marriages are neither heavenly nor hellish, but vaguely purgatorial.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took ..
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Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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too many maniacs not enough michelangelos
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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It all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not?"
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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rituals
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how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after?
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I want to learn how to speak Italian.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
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lm ynqdhny 'myr , bl knt 'n mdyr@ `mly@ nqdhy
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What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.
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hope
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. From the distant past to the unknowable future, my mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. This in itself is not necessarily a problem; the problem is the emotional attachment that goes along with the thi..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who stood on each other's shoulders to peek over the temple at you and call out "Hello, Mrs. Lady!" as you walked by. There were novices who snuck cigarettes at night outside the temple walls, the embers of their smokes glowing as orange as their robes. I saw a buff teenage monk doing push-u..
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fy lHb lyy's , nkhtr` shkhSyt lshrky'n fy lHy@ wnTlb mnhm 'n ykwnw km nrydhm 'n ykwnw , thm nnhr Hyn yrfDwn l`b ldwr ldhy khtr`nh fy l'ss
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nSf fy'd@ lsjwd ttmthl fy lTlb bHdW dhth , fy lny@ lslym@ lwDH@ .
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the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business?
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Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?
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tkhylt myn `qly ,,, fhw `l~ l'rjH myn mthlk, mzqth l`wSf, wlknW mwq`h jyd w`mqh mnsb. myn `qly hw khlyj mftwH, nh lmdkhl lwHyd ljzyr@ dhty (why jzyr@ shb@ wbrkny@, 'jl, wlknh khSb@ ww`d@). wqd khDt hdhh ljzyr@ b`D lHrwb, wlknWh ltzmt lan blslm, bqyd@ z`ym jdyd ('n) wD` syst jdyd@ lHmy@ lmkn. wlan, thm@ qwnyn 'kthr Srm@ bkthyr bkhSwS mn ydkhl hdh lmyn. ....... fn mknk y fkry l`zyz@ lltzm bhdhh lqwnyn ljdyd@, hl wshl, wl, fltrj`y l~ lbHr, mn ..
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I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
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In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history."
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corinthians
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Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow--for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
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He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.
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I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who stood on each other's shoulders to peek over the temple at you and call out "Hello, Mrs. Lady!" as you walked by. There were novices who snuck cigarettes at night outside the temple walls, the embers of their smokes glowing as orange as their robes. I saw a buff teenage monk doing push-u..
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'nt lst sw~ m tfkr fyh. w'Hsysk hy `bd l'fkrk, w'nt `bd l`wTfk.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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She thought she knew much, but she knew nothing.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite."
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this idea of the chakras, that he wanted to actually see them in a dissected human body in order to believe they existed. But after a particularly transcendent meditative experience, he came away with a new understanding of it. He said,'Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human bein..
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rwm l ttnfs m` 'Hd .rwm ttfrj `l~ lhrj wlmrj mn dwn 'yW t'thWr , wk'nh tqwl : mhm f`ltm , 'bq~ 'n rwm .
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister."
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