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We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.


Elizabeth Gilbert

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ELIZABETH GILBERT God dwells within you, as you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Dear me, how I love a library.
ELIZABETH GILBERT That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of div...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advanc...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic e...
ELIZABETH GILBERT يعتقد المرء أن توأم الروح هو الشخص الأنسب له ، وهذا ماي�...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrat...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whisk...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-...
ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus...
ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express...
ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that...
ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali...
ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot g...
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