“The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If you clear out all that space in your mind that you’re using right now to obsess about this guy, you’ll have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to… — 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 have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“So Sofie and I have come to Pizzeria da Michele, and these pies we have just ordered -- one for each of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I believe, Miss Whittaker? Regarding your question on the origins of human compassion and self-sacrifice? I believe that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The human mind, if dutifully trained, should be able to perform anything we ask of it. It is all just a matter… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The other day a monk told me, 'The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way)-take care of the problems now, or else you'll just… — 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 ever desired something and then didn't get it (or, worse, got it and subsequently lost it) know full well the suffering of which the Buddah spoke. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“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 have the potential to breed their own brand of trouble. We are susceptible to emotional uncertainties and neuroses that are probably not very common among the Hmong, but that run rampant these days among my contemporaries… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
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 have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
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 might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“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 sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
