Love love love "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
I adore this book. I just finished reading
it and am now going to scour Amazon and my public library's website for other
books by this very funny and down to earth writer. I may even love her
writing more than Anne Lammott's...that might have to do with the fact
that Anne Lammott's autobiographical stuff talks a lot about her
Christian beliefs and Gilbert's on the yoga/meditation type of
spiritual path which I can get behind better.
In fact, the second section of the book (it's divided into 3 parts: Eat is in Italy, Pray takes place on an ashram in India, and Love is about her 4 months in Bali) where she writes about what was supposed to be 6 weeks on the ashram and the rest roaming about India, I think I finally got this spiritual thing a bit. It was fascinating reading about her struggles with meditating even though she was already committed enough to her spiritual growth to get her butt on a plane to India and spend it sitting on said butt meditating in a cave (among other places). Even the 2 poems she wrote at the end of her stay on the Ashram had a funny, hard edge to them...after 4 months of meditation and prayer. I guess it made me think that one could be on this spiritual path and still have some common sense. It doesn't have to mean that you get all Cumbaya 'n shit. I think I'll start meditating. That's not at all what I was expecting from this book. Regardless of the spiritual stuff, the book was such a fun read and had me chuckling out loud. If you like to travel and have a snarky sense of humor, you'll probably enjoy this book too. You might have to be a chick to really enjoy it but an open minded guy might love it too.
In fact, the second section of the book (it's divided into 3 parts: Eat is in Italy, Pray takes place on an ashram in India, and Love is about her 4 months in Bali) where she writes about what was supposed to be 6 weeks on the ashram and the rest roaming about India, I think I finally got this spiritual thing a bit. It was fascinating reading about her struggles with meditating even though she was already committed enough to her spiritual growth to get her butt on a plane to India and spend it sitting on said butt meditating in a cave (among other places). Even the 2 poems she wrote at the end of her stay on the Ashram had a funny, hard edge to them...after 4 months of meditation and prayer. I guess it made me think that one could be on this spiritual path and still have some common sense. It doesn't have to mean that you get all Cumbaya 'n shit. I think I'll start meditating. That's not at all what I was expecting from this book. Regardless of the spiritual stuff, the book was such a fun read and had me chuckling out loud. If you like to travel and have a snarky sense of humor, you'll probably enjoy this book too. You might have to be a chick to really enjoy it but an open minded guy might love it too.
