I just finished this captivating book by Liz Gilbert and I highly recommend it to all my friends. I wish I could of had some serious healing time after my divorce to be able to roto-rooter all of the bitterness, acrimony, pain, venom and malice out of my soul and get a transfusion of spirituality, peace and love. I lived vicariously through her in the quest for enlightenment, with the itinery of 4 months each in Italy, India and Bali. I think even I could have found enlightenment under those circumstances.
She asks the question "what would happen if I threw away the road map for my life that I've been making for the last 10-20 years and went out and embraced the universe and accepted whatever came back as a result?"
I devoured this book and couldn't put it down once I started. I can't wait to read more of her work. It is truly comfort food for the literary soul.
I especially loved the section when she was in Italy because I have spent some of the best days of my life there, and I yearn to go back. Because of my interest in yoga and meditating, I was enthralled with her experiences in India, in an ashram. I too, have a problem with meditating and I agree how impossible it is to stop the monkey mind! This has inspired me more than ever, to continue my quest to really, really learn how to meditate.
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