I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life. Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Gilbert The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm. Elizabeth Gilbert spiritualdarktogether Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect. Elizabeth Gilbert heartbreakreallove The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras. Elizabeth Gilbert painlonelydog Your fear is the most boring thing about you. Elizabeth Gilbert overcoming-fearboringovercoming Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. Elizabeth Gilbert fogprayerjobs We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. Elizabeth Gilbert inner-peaceyogaself You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you. Elizabeth Gilbert leavingnoveldna There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket. Elizabeth Gilbert italianwinningson According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss. Elizabeth Gilbert painpurposesuffering The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them. Elizabeth Gilbert oddslongschool There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. Elizabeth Gilbert good-fridaylightlove If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand. Elizabeth Gilbert settlingscenegiving Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true. Elizabeth Gilbert energywritingmemories Embrace the glorious mess that you are Elizabeth Gilbert being-yourselfpowerfulhappiness My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? Elizabeth Gilbert crazyhurtheart Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me. Elizabeth Gilbert eat-love-praydivinityhonor In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place. Elizabeth Gilbert heartbreaklovecharacter Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit. Elizabeth Gilbert familytattoobaby I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything. Elizabeth Gilbert soulmissingorder Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. Elizabeth Gilbert heartbreaksweetlove
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