“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
“Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…
“Show me your garden, provided
it be your own, and I will tell you what you are
like.”
Source: The Garden that I Love (1905)
Irish Heartbeat
Song lyrics, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983)
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter I, p. 9
As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
