Elizabeth Gilbert
American author whose 2006 memoir Eat Pray Love — a year-long journey through Italy, India, and Indonesia in search of pleasure, devotion, and balance — became one of the most-read and most-quoted spiritual memoirs of the twenty-first century, selling over twelve million copies in thirty languages and shaping a generation's understanding of contemplative travel, ashram life, and the contemporary spiritual journey. Born in 1969 in Waterbury, Connecticut, she has continued in Big Magic (2015) and other works to explore creativity as a spiritual practice and the relationship between fear, courage, and the creative life. She lives in New Jersey and remains one of the most distinctive voices on faith, devotion, and creative-life as spiritual practice in contemporary writing.
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Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
101 quotes“In the silence, the soul finds its truest voice.”
“Forgiveness is the engine of grace.”
“In the deepest sense, all yoga is the yoga of love.”
“To kneel before the divine is to rise before everything else.”
“What you find in the ashram is not what you came looking for. It is what was waiting.”
“In bhakti, the lover becomes the Beloved.”
“Devotional chant is the breath of the soul.”
“Wherever you go, the divine is also there.”
“The pilgrimage is to your own heart.”
“Love is the food. Devotion is the cooking.”
“You don't have to leave home to find God. But sometimes you do.”
“Fear is the price of the unknown. Pay it.”
“To create is to step into the unknown with shaking knees.”
“Inspiration whispers. The work answers.”
“Every creative act is an act of trust.”
“The creative life is a pilgrimage.”
“Curiosity is the truth-detector of the soul.”
“Done is the engine of more done.”
“Frustration is just a sign you're getting close to something.”
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