Friday, October 10, 2008
Eat, Pray, Love
I am in love with this book and Elizabeth Gilbert's life. She dropped it all to find herself and helped people along the way. This was, of course, a book I listened too via my MP3 played and the version I bought was narrated by Elizabeth herself. She has a hypnotic voice and what she was going through just seeps through her narration. It is an inspiring book that makes me, at least, want to leave it all behind and go find what's really buried deep inside me. Alas I am a mom, wife, and business owner. That's not going to happen anytime soon. Thus I listen to her book and live vicariously through her. Oh I also see the book is being made into a movie. Very cool!
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Hi Tara!! I've heard of this book but not yet read it. Someone told me it was excellent.
There is a lot to be said in terms of "...want(ing) to leave it all behind and go find what's really buried deep inside me". As I've done that...years of that. And it saved my life. I wouldn't be here today had I not done that.
BUT I've since learned that we can also do it in our daily lives by seeing every experience -- good or bad -- as a chance to learn and grow. Basically making a commitment to embrace Life no matter what it throws at us.
That doesn't mean we can't make healthy choices and set boundaries, of course we can. But I have found that my greatest growth often happened in the times when I couldn't "go find myself".
You strike me as someone who is already very wise. It's why I enjoy your site. :)
I read passages from this book out loud! The whole first part... I felt like I was LIVING it, down to the crying on the bathroom floor!!!
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