09/03 Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Love Pray
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Abstract
The celebrated writer of The Last American Man makes an overwhelming, candid, and articulate story of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.
By the time she turned thirty, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a progressive, intellectual, aspiring American lady was acknowledged to wish - a hubby, a dwelling in the country, a productive job. But instead of feeling fortunate and fulfilled, she was exhausted with fear, grief and confusion. She went through a separation, a destructive depression, new love and the complete destruction of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.
To recover from all that mess, Gilbert made a revolutionary step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what were her actual goals, she trashed of her belongings, cancelled her work, left her beloved ones behind and went for a year-long journey around the world, by herself. Eat, Pray, Love is the story of that year. Gilbert’s goal was to visit three places, where she could look into one aspect of her own nature, put against the background of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Italy, she studied the art of joy, learning to talk Italian and putting on weight with the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of dedication, where, with the assistance of a autochthonic religious leader and a surprisingly smart Texan, she embarked on four months of ascetic spiritual research . Finally, in Indonesia, she reached her last objects: proportion - namely, how to somehow make a life of equilibrium between Earth’s enjoying and spiritual values. Looking for these answers on the island of Bali, she became the pupil of an elderly, ninth-generation medicine man and also fell in love in the very best way - unexpectedly.
Eat, Pray, Love is an piece of writing what might happen when you claim responsibility for your own happiness. It is also about the surprisings, which can change when a woman starts to live on her own. This is a story certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the need for change.
What people say about the book
When I turned the pages in the bookstore, I found something I could relate to straightaway in about every section of “Eat, Pray, and Love.” I got the publication, loved it, relished it, and have no regrets. It is what is is, a pleasurable, good written script.
Gilbert begins with descriptive string of beads , which I also wrote about in my book, so I had a prompt bonds with the author. I even have my own hand-made set of beads from seeds I acquired in Katmandu.