In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, '... - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

"Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there."

"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"

"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."

"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."

"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."