Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman’s Search For Everything Across Italy, India, And Indonesia
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Title
Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman’s Search For Everything Across Italy, India, And Indonesia
Attribution
Elizabeth Gilbert
Format
Book
Published
2006
Availability
[availability|tl34696000259551]
Call Number
920 Gil
Description and Reviews
And I thought, ìUntil I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for a giant squid, I cannot have a baby.î I donÃÂt want to be married anymore. Saving for later the argument about whether God exists at all (noóhereÃÂs a better idea: letÃÂs skip that argument completely), let me first explain why I use the word God, when I could just as easily use the words Jehovah, Allah, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu or Zeus. Alternatively, I could call God ìThat,î which is how the ancient Sanskrit scriptures say it, and which I think comes close to the all-inclusive and unspeakable entity I have sometimes experienced. Of course, I donÃÂt mind if people call God ìHer,î and I understand the urge to do so. And while I do love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I do reserve the right to ask myself in certain trying situations what indeed He would do, I canÃÂt swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeedó much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts. I respond with gratitude to anyone who has ever voyaged to the center of that heart, and who has then returned to the world with a report for the rest of us that God is an experience of supreme love. When people asked me, ìWhat kind of dog is that?î I would always give the same answer: ìSheÃÂs a brown dog.î Similarly, when the question is raised, ìWhat kind of God do you believe in?î my answer is easy: ìI believe in a magnificent God.î 4 Of course, IÃÂve had a lot of time to formulate my opinions about divinity since that night on the bathroom floor when I spoke to God directly for the first time. What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: ìHello, God. summarized from Amazon.com [reviews|asin=]
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