Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who

Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine.

📖 Elizabeth Gilbert

🌍 American | 👨‍💼 Novelist

🎂 July 18, 1969

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Medicating the symptom of any illness without exploring its root cause is just a classically hare-brained Western way to think that anyone could ever get truly better. — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

Saint Anthony once wrote about having gone into the desert on silent retreat and being assaulted by all manner of visions - devils and angels, both. He said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. If you are appalled, he said, then it was a devil who had visited you. If you feel lightened, it was an angel. — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

Once the troublesome mind begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work. But if you can surpass those thoughts, Teresa explained, and ascend toward God, it is a glorious bewilderment, a heavenly madness, in which true wisdom is acquired. — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the harder it is to recover. — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right - I was speaking to the creator of the universe as though we'd just been introduced at a cocktail party. But we work with what we know in this life, and these are the words I always use at the beginning of a relationship. In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, I've always been a big fan of your work. — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

'Masaan' was a life-changing experience. — Shweta Tripathi

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch. — Yoko Ono

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. — Ridley Scott

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. — Tracey Emin

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door. — Aaron Schock

Every experience makes you a man. — Eric Cantona

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