Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spir... - 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."
"Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there."
"All I could say was, "I don't know what to do."I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth."
"I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water."
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"
"[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company."