All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.
Elizabeth GilbertAt that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.
Elizabeth GilbertThe reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
Elizabeth GilbertWeโre miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character.
Elizabeth GilbertYou write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.
Elizabeth GilbertYou know, itโs the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, youโre not the puppet of the piano, youโre not the puppet of the muse, but youโre not its master, either. Itโs a relationship, itโs a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over.
Elizabeth Gilbert