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meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Meditation
Listening
Prayer
Talking

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Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
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You were given life it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
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When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
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That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
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There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
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You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.
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I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
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Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.
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You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
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Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.
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If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
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We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.
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I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
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What do I believe that I deserve in this life?
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The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.
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whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off
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As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul even one puff is bad for you.
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Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
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The resting place of the mind is the heart.
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