Thoughts For Today!

I have recently read the book Eat Pray love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and it really was a spiritual journey. I have always felt a deep connection with Italy, mediation and even more so, love, so this book simply blew my mind. I sort of submerged myself in her life and story. This book spoke to me, especially because of where I am in my life at the moment. So I am not even sure if it would move others as it has me. But here are a few quotes from the book. I hope they inspire you and speak to your soul. x G :)

"Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"He was powerful, she says, and I died of love in his shadow."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

" l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle " . . .
"The love that moves the sun and the other stars. "
— Elizabeth Gilbert