Over break, I got the chance to see Julia Robert's new movie, "Eat, Pray, Love" which is based on the book by Elizabeth Gilbert. I'm really interested now in reading the book because I have heard it is so much better.
What I really enjoyed, though were the themes of reconciling travel and new discoveries with friends and family from before.
Two quotes I liked where these:
"It feels like a precious wound, a heartbreak you won't let go of because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked at around to this place, at the chaos it has endured - the way it has been adapted, burned, pillaged and found a way to build itself back up again. And I was reassured, maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic, it's just the world that is, and the real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
And...
What she calls, "The Physics of the Quest"
"If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accpet everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared--most of all--to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself...then truth will not be withheld from you."
I can't wait to take this book abroad with me. Stay tuned for more quotes!
I have mixed feelings about that movie/book. In many ways I find it very self-serving and self-righteous, at the same time, I find some of her insights and story telling quite funny.
ReplyDeleteI like her insight on travel and healing, definitely, but not so much her ideas on God or Love, or her initial reasons for leaving.
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