Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes


This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.


Citations

Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love. Viking, 2006.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Born: July 18, 1969
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Memoirist

Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat Pray Love which has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.