The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
