Quotes from book

Eat, Pray, Love

“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.”

“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

“But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.”

“Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.”

“I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.”

“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”

“Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.”

“Om Namah Shivaya, meaning,
I honor the divinity that resides within me.”

“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.”

“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”

“But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.”

“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”

“As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.”

“You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.”

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

“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”

“There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”

“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”

“I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”