Today I would like to share some excerpts from the movie ‚Eat Pray Love‘ with you that deeply resonate with me. I never read the book by Elizabeth Gilbert (although I own it and should do so at one point), but it is one of my favorite movies. A while ago, while watching it once again :) I realised how many great and intriguing thoughts the various characters expressed. So I sat down, watched it again and wrote them all down….
I will also post some of these as notes, feeling that they deserve to stand on their own. But here they are and I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do - may you find some personal favorites among them.
EAT PRAY LOVE revisited
keep grounded like you have four legs
that way you can stay in this world
also
do not look through your head
look through your heart instead
having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face
you kind of wanna be fully committed
hadn‘t I wanted this?
I had actively participated
every moment
in the creation of this life
so why don‘t I see myself in any of it?
the only thing
more impossible than staying
is leaving
I disappear into the person I love
I am the permeable membrane
if I love you
you can have it all
I project upon you all sorts of nifty qualities
you‘ve never even cultivated in yourself
I will give you all this and more
until I am so exhausted and depleted
that the only way I can recover
is by becoming infatuated by someone else
I need to be unnerved
why couldn‘t you just go off
and find yourself IN our marriage?
we are pretending to be a couple
that neither one of us
ever knew how to be
give me a chance
to miss you
there is like ....... nothing
I have no pulse
I used to have this appetite for my life and it is just gone
I want to go to a place where I can marvel at something
I don‘t know how to be here
you wanna know how to be here?
stop constantly waiting for something
you don‘t know pleasure
unless you are being told that you earn it
dolce far niente
the art of doing sweet nothing
maybe you are a woman in search of a word
I am so tired of counting every calorie I consume
just so I know
how much self loathing
to take into the shower with me
I am through with the guilt
for who?
just for you
we all want things to stay the same
we settle for living in misery
because we are afraid of change
of things crumbling to ruins
ruin is a gift
ruin is the road to transformation
we must always be prepared for endless transformation
I am the luckiest girl in the world
salute!
I wann live
I wanna give
you wanna get to the castle
you gotta swim the moat
stop thinking
the meditation room is within
select your thoughts
like you select your clothes
I don‘t want easy
just not so hard
forgive yourself
it is not that easy
I thought too much
felt too much
I missed it all
I will miss you
so miss me
and send me love
every time you think of it
it won‘t last forever
nothing does
god dwells within you as you
god dwells within me as me
you loose balance you loose power you have not healed that wound now you are being asked to open your heart you are afraid hurt will happen to you again the only way to heal is to trust you are afraid you don‘t want to loose yourself love is dangerous love is scary when you set out into the world to help yourself you help ‚tutti‘ I have the same fears and scars you have and I show them to you I guess the difference between you and I is that you are afraid to love again do you love me or do you love me not it is very easy balance is to not let anybody love you any less than you love yourself for love is part of living a balanced life I do not need to love you to proof that I love myself run away from me but you are running away from all the great possibilities of your own life sometimes loosing balance for love is part of living a balanced life the physics of the quest if you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting which can be anything from your house to bitter old resentments and set out on a truth seeking journey either externally or internally and if you are truly willing to regard everything that appears to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along that way as a teacher and if you are prepared most of all to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself then the truth will not be withheld from you let‘s cross over attraversiamo I am falling free falling
The movie came out in the USA in August 2010 and was directed by Ryan Murphy · Writers. Ryan Murphy · Jennifer Salt · Elizabeth Gilbert · Stars · Julia Roberts · Javier Bardem · Richard Jenkins.