“The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Culturally, though not theologically, I’m a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I want to have a lasting experience of God,” I told him. “Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In the end, what i have come to believe about God is simple. It's like this - I used to have this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of being a skeptic, I’m irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't… — 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