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the_re_sa_s 's review for:
Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Read my full review here:
https://tessasworldofthings.blogspot.de/2016/11/eat-pray-love-by-elizabeth-gilbert.html
Elizabeth Gilbert just got out of an unhappy marriage stumbling right into a divorce filled with hate, accusations and life wrecking, spirit breaking nights of what-if's and why-me's. During this time she went on a trip to Bali, writing for a newspaper. There she met this medicine man, who told her to come back and live with her. An idea was born. Since she got to know her inner voice and found a connection to God while her entire life was falling apart, she decided to do exactly that. Right after her divorce was finalized she went on a mission. First to find pleasure, then to find herself through meditation and third to (involuntary) find a partner.
Pleasure can be found in various places and while she decided to live celibate, there was only eating left. In Italy Elizabeth focused on eating everything she wanted at any time she wanted to, while meditating and treating herself well by learning a language she always fancied: Italian. Then she left for India, where she lived in an Ashram and focused all her energy on meditation and finding inner peace. Leaving behind what troubles her and focusing her energy on healthy and happy relationships. When her time in the Ashram was over, she went to Bali, where she found a whole new aspect of meditation that worked for her. And here, now that she was truly herself and left behind the bad memories of heart break and her divorce, now that she was able to focus completely on herself, do what was right for herself to be happy, now she found love.
I've got to admit, that I wasn't able to relate to everything she does. The whole meditating kind of thing and the blue light she saw when reaching bliss (or whatever it was) is the kind of thing that gets me staring at a book being like "Oh, really? You want to go there? Could I just skip this?", but I still read through it. Although I don't get it and would probably make the worst yogi on earth because I can't sit still, her honesty about her experiences astonished me. You know, I expected her to be more like "No problem! That was easy. You just sit there and whoosh! Got it!", but it wasn't anything like that. Elizabeth Gilbert explains how difficult it was for her to sit still, to quiet her mind, to let go of things from the past. All these kind of things that I find myself doing as well. It was very easy for me to relate to her. She manages to write this book with the kind of wisdom you want her to have, but without making you feel like a 10-year-old idiot who has no idea of the world not being flat. She writes with passion and humor and great honesty. Although Ms. Gilbert doesn't go into details about her broken marriage and her broken crazy out-of-bounds love story before she met that man in Bali, she manages to give away enough things to make the reader get a clear image. It's fascinating and proves why it's such a huge bestselling book.
https://tessasworldofthings.blogspot.de/2016/11/eat-pray-love-by-elizabeth-gilbert.html
Elizabeth Gilbert just got out of an unhappy marriage stumbling right into a divorce filled with hate, accusations and life wrecking, spirit breaking nights of what-if's and why-me's. During this time she went on a trip to Bali, writing for a newspaper. There she met this medicine man, who told her to come back and live with her. An idea was born. Since she got to know her inner voice and found a connection to God while her entire life was falling apart, she decided to do exactly that. Right after her divorce was finalized she went on a mission. First to find pleasure, then to find herself through meditation and third to (involuntary) find a partner.
Pleasure can be found in various places and while she decided to live celibate, there was only eating left. In Italy Elizabeth focused on eating everything she wanted at any time she wanted to, while meditating and treating herself well by learning a language she always fancied: Italian. Then she left for India, where she lived in an Ashram and focused all her energy on meditation and finding inner peace. Leaving behind what troubles her and focusing her energy on healthy and happy relationships. When her time in the Ashram was over, she went to Bali, where she found a whole new aspect of meditation that worked for her. And here, now that she was truly herself and left behind the bad memories of heart break and her divorce, now that she was able to focus completely on herself, do what was right for herself to be happy, now she found love.
I've got to admit, that I wasn't able to relate to everything she does. The whole meditating kind of thing and the blue light she saw when reaching bliss (or whatever it was) is the kind of thing that gets me staring at a book being like "Oh, really? You want to go there? Could I just skip this?", but I still read through it. Although I don't get it and would probably make the worst yogi on earth because I can't sit still, her honesty about her experiences astonished me. You know, I expected her to be more like "No problem! That was easy. You just sit there and whoosh! Got it!", but it wasn't anything like that. Elizabeth Gilbert explains how difficult it was for her to sit still, to quiet her mind, to let go of things from the past. All these kind of things that I find myself doing as well. It was very easy for me to relate to her. She manages to write this book with the kind of wisdom you want her to have, but without making you feel like a 10-year-old idiot who has no idea of the world not being flat. She writes with passion and humor and great honesty. Although Ms. Gilbert doesn't go into details about her broken marriage and her broken crazy out-of-bounds love story before she met that man in Bali, she manages to give away enough things to make the reader get a clear image. It's fascinating and proves why it's such a huge bestselling book.