Eat, Pray, Love vertelt het autobiografische verhaal van schrijfster Elizabeth Gilbert
Als 32 jarige vrouw heeft ze alles wat haar hartje begeert, een succesvolle carrière, een echtgenoot en een mooi huis. Maar toch voelt ze zich ongelukkig en na een pijnlijke scheiding besluit Elizabeth Gilbert alles achter zich te laten. gaat ze op wereldreis om zichzelf te herontdekken. Wanneer ze in Bali een medicijnenman, Ketut, gaat bezoeken die vertelt dat ze zal scheiden en naar zichzelf op zoek zal gaan. Uiteindelijk verlaat ze haar echtgenoot en stort zich in een kortdurende affaire met een jongere man. Wanneer dat ook stroef loopt wilt ze zichzelf gaan ontdekken, door een jaar op reis te gaan. Eerst in Rome, daarna in een meditatie kamp in India en eindigend in het prachtige Bali, waar ze de oude Ketut weer gaat opzoeken. En de weg in haar eigen hoofd en hart vindt. Het evenwicht in haar leven. Uiteindelijk vind ze haar ware liefde.
Lees het boek, herlees het als je het al gelezen hebt.
Drie fragmenten uit haar boek Eat, Pray, Love:
Mending my soul
It was in a bathtub back in New York, reading Italian words aloud from a dictionary, that I first started mending my soul. My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn't have picked me out of a police lineup. But I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is noy selfishness, but obligation. You were given a life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
About happiness
I keep remembering one one of my Guru’s teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining of it. If you don’t like it, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Do not look at the world through your head;
look at it through your heart."
Ketut
"So the holy truth of the whole adventure here in India,
is in one line:
"God dwells within you ... as you." God's not interested in watching a performance of how a spiritual person looks and behaves. The quiet girl who glides silently through the place with a gentle, ethereal smile ... who is that person? It's Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells of St. Mary's" – not me. God dwells within me ... as me."
Liz
I keep remembering one one of my Guru’s teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining of it. If you don’t like it, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Do not look at the world through your head;
look at it through your heart."
Ketut
"So the holy truth of the whole adventure here in India,
is in one line:
"God dwells within you ... as you." God's not interested in watching a performance of how a spiritual person looks and behaves. The quiet girl who glides silently through the place with a gentle, ethereal smile ... who is that person? It's Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells of St. Mary's" – not me. God dwells within me ... as me."
Liz
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