Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award); a novel, Stern Men; and The Last American Man (a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award).
AI导读
核心看点
记录作者离婚后环球旅行,寻找身心平衡的治愈之旅。
通过美食、祈祷与爱,探索自我接纳与灵魂伴侣的真谛。
文笔幽默风趣,充满对生命、信仰及女性独立的深刻反思。
读者共识
电影改编广受好评,但原著部分章节被评略显拖沓冗长。
作者TED演讲极具智慧,比书籍本身更能体现其思想深度。
虽有人嫌其“作”,但多数读者认为其真诚分享令人共鸣。
精彩摘录
""He probably was. Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. 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's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so"
"Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots."
"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character."
"Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving.. You 'll see that you were in mourning and your hear was broken, but your life was changing and you were in the best possible place in the world for it-- in a beautiful place of worship, surrounded by grace."
"“But I love him." "So love him." "But I miss him." "So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it. You're just afraid to let go of the last bits of David because then you'll really be alone, and Liz Gilbert is scared to death of what will happen if she's "
"it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection"