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“When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
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“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
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“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Kontext: I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone. I let myself into my tiny little studio, all alone. I shut the door behind me. Another early bedtime in Rome. Another long night's sleep ahead of me, with nobody and nothing in my bed except a pile of Italian phrase books and dictionaries.
I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone.
Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees, and press my forehead against the floor. There I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks.
First in English.
Then in Italian.
And then — just to get the point across — in Sanskrit.
And since I am already down there in supplication on the floor, let me hold that position as I reach back in time three years earlier to the moment where this entire story began — a moment that also found me in this exact same posture: on my knees, on a floor, praying.
“I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone.”
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Kontext: I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone. I let myself into my tiny little studio, all alone. I shut the door behind me. Another early bedtime in Rome. Another long night's sleep ahead of me, with nobody and nothing in my bed except a pile of Italian phrase books and dictionaries.
I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone.
Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees, and press my forehead against the floor. There I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks.
First in English.
Then in Italian.
And then — just to get the point across — in Sanskrit.
And since I am already down there in supplication on the floor, let me hold that position as I reach back in time three years earlier to the moment where this entire story began — a moment that also found me in this exact same posture: on my knees, on a floor, praying.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Kontext: 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…
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Kontext: 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.
“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings”
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Kontext: Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Kontext: 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…
Zdroj: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Om Namah Shivaya, meaning,
I honor the divinity that resides within me.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
“Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
“I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
“Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love
