Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
Elizabeth GilbertWe can change our wives,โ he said. โWe can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
Elizabeth GilbertIt's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.
Elizabeth GilbertI promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.
Elizabeth Gilbert