"Eat, Pray, Love"

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The second stop, in which Gilbert was nicknamed 'groceries':

• The built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment... "Desire - it's a design flaw."
• There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him.
• These chakras do not exist in the gross body, say the Yogis... they exist only in the subtle body.
• He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. ..."
• The other purpose of mantra is to transport you to another state, rowboatlike, through the choppy waves of the mind.
• There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?
• kundalina shakti: all it asks of me is this simple request - Would you kindly turn yourself inside out, so that your lungs and heart and offal will be on the outside and the whole universe will be on the inside?
• ... generally revolve around compassion and love and butterflies and bliss and a friendly God (what my friend Darcey calls "Slumber Party Theology")
• The Buddha decided he would become a teacher for the benefit of that minority-"for those of little dust".
• You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
• Rules on the books about who may enter this harbor: You may not come here anymore with... your plague ships of thoughts.
• The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.

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