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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.
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Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
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Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.
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Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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the beauty of doing nothing
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I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, If you tell anyone what you've seen...
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The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.
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The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.
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Take me someplace where we can be silent together.
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We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.
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Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: I want a spiritual teacher.
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Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
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To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.
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whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off
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