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When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The"
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I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celibate? An Italian? A glutton? A traveler? An artist? A Yogi? But I'm not any of these things, at least not completely. And I'm not Crazy Aunt Liz, either. I'm just a slippery antevasin - betwixt and between - a student on the ever-shifting border near the wonderful, scary forest of the new.
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life
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me. Just say what you want to say, then, and say it with all your heart. Share whatever you are driven to share. If it's authentic enough, believe me--it will feel original. Motives
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A soulmate's purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master." ."
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We loved each other. That was never the question. It's just that we couldn't figure out how to stop making each other desperately, shriekingly, soul-punishingly miserable.
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El gran amor de mi vida es viajar
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The love between Uncle Dees and Roger was every bit as enduring as it had been immediate. They were never to be seen apart, man and dog, not since the moment of their introduction. Very quickly after their arrival in Amsterdam four years earlier, Roger had given Alma to understand that he was no longer her dog--that, in fact, he had never been her dog, nor had he ever been Ambrose's dog, but that he had been Dees' dog all along, by force of..
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destiny
man-and-dog
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Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana... "From the center of my life, there came a great fountain..."
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind t..
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love
relationships
sexuality
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Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.
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energy
life
perfection
spirituality
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The former Catholic nun (who oughtta know about guilt, after all) wouldn't hear of it. "Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear."
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Simply put, I got pulled through the wormhole of the Absolute, and in that rush I suddenly understood the workings of the universe completely. I left my body, I left the room, I left the planet, I stepped through time and I entered the void. I was inside the void, but I also was the void and I was looking at the void, all at the same time. The void was a place of limitless peace and wisdom, The void was conscious and intelligent. The void w..
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love
philosophy
spirituality
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Mandale luz y amor cuando te acuerdes de el y olvidate del tema
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.
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life
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The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bother me anymore. My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing - Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah. But they don't agitate my home. There's room for all of us in this neighborhood.
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life
spirituality
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Devotion is diligence without assurance.
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life
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
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divinity
spirituality
transcendence
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years - I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two forces at the same time. Obviously, there is the acorn from whic..
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philosophy
spirituality
zen-buddhism
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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His penmanship was shamefully crabbed. Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to escape the page.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.
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life
personality
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you're craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up ..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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La adiccion es tipica en todas las historias de amor basadas en el encaprichamiento. Al llegar al destino final del amor caprichoso: la mas absoluta y despiadada devaluacion del propio ser.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel li..
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learning
moving-on-and-letting-go
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Once the troublesome mind "begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work." But if you can surpass those thoughts, Teresa explained, and ascend toward God, "it is a glorious bewilderment, a heavenly madness, in which true wisdom is acquired."
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philosophy
wisdom
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The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.
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humor
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering--no matter what you may think of them and their supposed good fortune.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard
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love
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Cherie, je suis Bresilien du sud. Je peux passer dix ans avec le coeur brise a cause d'une femme que je n'ai meme pas embrassee.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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we must find the patience and resignation to endure our challenges as they arise to meet us.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Sincere spiritual investigation is, and always has been, an endeavor of methodical discipline.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Si no sabes donde estas ni a que clan perteneces,?como piensas hallar el equilibrio?
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one of the reasons I was so free that year was because I was such a mess.
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Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they'd ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthle..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Creativity is a path for the brave, yes, but it is not a path for the fearless, and it's important to recognize the distinction.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The paradox that you need to comfortably inhabit, if you wish to live a contented creative life, goes something like this: "My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely)." Sometimes"
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Whether you think you're brilliant or you think you're a loser, just make whatever you need to make and toss it out there.
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