We're miserable because we think that we are mere individual... - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality."
"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality."
"Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there."
"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"
"The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident."
"Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."