I just finished this book, which was loaned to me by a co-worker.
It is in three sections, one per country in which the author, Elizabeth Gilbert, spends four months of dedicating herself to some portion of her healing/finding herself again journey. In Italy, she eats and sleeps and learns Italian just because it is beautiful. In India, she lives in an Ashram and meditates and chants in Sanskrit. In Indonesia, she relaxes and meditates, makes friends, and falls in love again.
I got bored in India and didn't really get into it again until half-way through Indonesia. She has some interesting spiritual beliefs that I don't agree with, mostly, but I couldn't really figure out why until one of the last chapters. It's all about her. She wouldn't say that, but that's how it seems to me. She can't accept that God, or the Universe, or whatever she wants to call her Higher Power, could be beyond human-ness and that his/its ways wouldn't conform to her own understanding. Of course, throughout the book she refers to her beliefs that God is in us, and is us, and that in order to find lasting peace we must only come to realize this and maintain our balance in that truth.
Liz Gilbert wants to find all she needs within herself, and enjoying those around her. The second part, I like, but the first would never work for me.
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ooo i think im going to go buy this book, it sounds really interesting. thanks for the review!
-mary suz
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