Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

Chill out, relax and have an open mind.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been dropped, you cannot go anywhere; all dreams and desires have disappeared, there is no way to move. Relaxation happens of its own accord. Just think of the word relax. Be, settle, you have come home.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Find patience in the breath of life.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I am where I am and it's ok.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.