– one woman’s search for everything –

eat, pray, love
                  by Elizabeth Gilbert

Liz is a American woman in her middle-thirties, who has just come through a failed marriage and a devastating divorce. She knows that, 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 don’t perform the role created by us.
Now, she wants to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devotes herself to God.
She will explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonezia, the art of balancing the two. The balance between worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.
She went to Italy in order to learn Italian too, because she loves this language. She loves Rome and its inhabitants, but about Venice she thinks that you can admire it, but you don’t really want to live in it. (I think the same :))
In India, she learns that prayer is a relationship. Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you, through your mouth. And the silence is the only true religion. To meditate, you must smile, only. Smile with face, smile with mind, end good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. You can calling the good energy with a smile.
In Indonezia, she found that the ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us. It’s up to the individual (or the family or the society) to decide what will be brought forth – the virtues or the malevolence.
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as it all the joy. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You have to fight for it.
And something that I told you in the past: There are always a positive side of things; with every cloud there’s a silver lining.
This book helps me to improve my English.