I didn't expect to like "Eat, Pray, Love." I picked it up a few days before a month-long trip, and in my sleep-deprived, angst-ridden, post-Bar-exam state, I was too tired to research something I actually wanted to read. Instead, standing in the airport bookshop, I had a vague recollection that Hillary Clinton had mentioned reading it, and so I threw it in my bag for my travels through Spain.
You know where this is going. I devoured it. Multiple times, actually. Every morning, I would bore everyone with the passages I had read the night before, insisting on reading them out loud. There were so many passages that spoke to me, but one in particular resonates at this moment:
"The Bhagavad Gita - that ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly." Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Could there be a higher goal than that?
October 9, 2009
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Did you know that Julia Roberts is filming the movie in India right now?
ReplyDeleteI love that quote !
ReplyDeletethis really resonated with me - b/c i feel like i've been living life according to the 'cookie cutter' way - that i have no idea who standardized. i'm going to stomp down this wall - and create a little path for myself
ReplyDeleteSo I'll agree that I really liked that quote, but I still find the book hard to get through. Maybe I'll try to be more open-minded while I finish the 3rd part.
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