One Woman’s Search for Everything…

Some favorite Quotes from Eat Pray Love…..

The Only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it..

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Because how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work.

But why must everything always have a practical application?

“To find the balance you want.”

You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart,instead. That way, you will know God.”

Opinion about prayer: “Will you change this or that thing in my life that’s difficult for me?” Because who knows? God might want me to be facing that particular challenge for a reason. Instead, i feel more comfortable praying for the courage to face whatever occurs in my life with equanimity, no matter how things turn out.

When i don’t know what i am doing, i look like don’t know what i am doing. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

Eat Pray Love

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right….

When you are lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost….

Because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch- there is not a chance.

That’s the thing about human life – there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would turned out if any variables had been changed.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

The art of making something out of nothing.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement.

If i love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my money, my family, my ass – everything. If i love you, i will carry all your pains, i will assume for you all your debts, i will protect you from your own insecurity….

Dear God, i could use a little break from this cycle, to give myself some space to discover what i look like and talk like when i’m not trying to merge with someone.

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.

There is a constant level of closeness that i really need from the person I love. But it just destroys me to bot be able to count on that affection when I need it.

But we are not what the other one needs.

I am making the space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

You will look at me but i will refuse to look at you.

This is perfect, that is perfect, if you take the perfect from the perfect, the perfect remains.

You are after all what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts and you are the slave to your emotions.

You have no idea how strong my love is……

“Felipe: Listen, balance, my darling, is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself. ”

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

I think I deserve something beautiful.

I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, ‘There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge?

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

but if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

“Gilbert: I’m sick of people telling me that I need a man.
Felipe: You don’t need a man, Liz. You need a champion. ”

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.

 

Cheers

Anjali

 

 

 

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Review of “Brida”

I just finished the book named “Brida”. Paulo Coelho has portrayed the young girl and her search of soulmate marvelously.  One would not miss to read this book at least once. These are some of the excerpts …

 

“There is no need to close your eyes. Look at the world around you and try to see and understand as much as you can. This is the firs t and most important lesson.”

 

“…She must trust it. And that trust is called Faith. No one could ever understand Faith, but Faith was what she was experiencing now, an inexplicable immersion in blackest night. It only existed because she believe in it. Miracles couldn’t be explained either, but they existed for those who believed in them.”

 

“I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forwards. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. That every moment in life is an act of faith.”

 

“The path of wisdom means not being afraid to make mistakes.”

 

“Only by understanding the Soulmate can we understand how knowledge can be transmitted over time.”

 

“In certain reincarnations, we divide into two. Our souls divide as do crystals and stars, cells and plants. As well as dividing into two, we also find ourselves. And that process of finding ourselves is called Love. Because when a soul divides, it always divides into a male part and a female part.”

 

“In each life, we feel a mysterious obligation to find at least one of those Soulmates. The Greater Love that separated them feels pleased with the Love that brings them together again.”

 

“By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”

 

“Is it possible to meet more than one Soulmate in each life?”  ‘Yes’, with a certain bitterness. And when that happens, the heart is divided, and the result is pain and suffering. Yes, we can meet three or four Soulmates, because we are many and we are scattered.”

 

“We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by, without accepting him or her, or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.”

 

“The path of the life is and always will be path of Mystery. Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

 

“The other day, I spoke to you about one of the great secrets of magic: the Soulmate. The whole of man’s life on the face of Earth can be summed up by that search for his Soulmate. He may pretend to be running after wisdom, money or power, but none of that matters. Whatever he achieves will be incomplete if he fails to find his Soulmate.”

 

“The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. And the closer you will be to your Soulmate.”

 

“God is the word. Always be careful what you say in any situation and at any moment. God manifests himself in everything, but the word is one of his most favoured methods of doing so, because the word is thought transformed into vibration; you are projecting into the air around you something which, before, was only energy. Take great care with everything you say.”

 

“Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.”

 

“I am afraid of committing myself. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things are inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”

 

“Life is so complicated. You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others. People who followed certain paths only to prove that they weren’t the right ones, but that wasn’t as bas as choosing a path and then spending the rest of your life wondering if you’d made the right choice. No one could make a choice without felling afraid.”

 

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

 

“The Force for Good is always diffused, like Light. When you give off positive vibrations, you benefit all humankind, but when you concentrate the force of the Messenger, you are only benefiting – or harming – yourself.”

 

“There was always risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more than one Soulmate in the same incarnation, as had happened millennia before.”

 

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

 

“Sometimes I think one thing and do another, but if you’ve ever felt love, you will know how painful it is to suffer for love.”

 

“..But emotions are, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard.”

 

“Love don’t require kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soulmate.”

 

“Play your part and don’t worry about what others do. Believe that God also speaks to them, and that they are as engaged as you are in discovering the meaning of life.”

 

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.”

 

“Life is about making mistakes. Never be afraid of making mistake.”                  

 

“No one can possess a sunset like the one we saw that evening. Just as no one can possess an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on he rocks. No one can possess the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. “

 

“That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine and that is why I will never lose you. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.”

 

“I will always remember now that love is liberty. I will always remember you and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and all the things we will always have because we cannot possess them.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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