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Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert says she wasn’t truly stirred by religion until she was 30 years old.
In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want—husband, country home, successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and confusion.
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.
What worked yesterday doesn’t always work today.
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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death.
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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
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That repetition of suffering—that’s hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understanding—there’s where you’ll find heaven.
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So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.