"A soul mate sometimes enters our life as someone to stir us up," he says. One particularly eye-opening discussion for Liz was when Richard explained the misunderstanding of the term soul mate. Yet he became one of the most important characters, teaching Liz about life and love. When Liz met Richard from Texas at an ashram in India, Richard had no idea of the role he would play in the book she was writing. "It sounds like I'm talking to a friend, because I am," she says.
Bring that person into the room with you and talk directly to that person, because if you try to talk to everybody, you're talking to nobody." Liz says she kept that in mind while writing Eat, Pray, Love. "She said never sit down and write anything unless you know exactly who you're telling your story to. Liz says she attributes her voice to a piece of advice her sister gave her years ago. "The one thing people kept on saying, it was almost like a book on tape but written, because we could hear voice throughout," Carrie says. Carrie gathered her friends, ages 65 to 25, to talk about the book that has touched them all. "Make it a book party, feast, celebration, life lesson, shared with some of my favorite women," she says. Carrie says she was panicking about turning 39 but decided to have an Eat, Pray, Love theme to celebrate her birthday. "Be realistic about what you can and cannot do in one day and one life," she says.Īcross the country, women are getting together to talk about Liz Gilbert's book by having Eat, Pray, Love parties. "You know, my friend Richard from Texas says if you're meditating more than 10 minutes, you're asleep anyway." Liz's biggest piece of advice? Learn to say no. She says that even women with busy lives and children can begin a spiritual journey with just 10 minutes of silence a day.
Liz has made a rule to never feel that she isn't good enough. "I live in New Jersey, you know? I don't live in an ashram," she says. Liz is the first to admit that finding time to meditate every day is difficult. " Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What am I here for?" "I really feel the one non-negotiable thing you need is to find a tiny little corner of your life, of your day, of stillness where you can begin to ask yourself those burning essential questions of your life," she says. Instead, your journey can start with an internal conversation. Elizabeth Gilbert's first appearance on Oprah produced such an overwhelming response from viewers-she's back with even more life-changing lessons to share! Her book Eat, Pray, Love has sparked an inspirational movement and continues to touch lives with talk of Eat, Pray, Love hitting the big screen!įor those who think they can't go on the same journey, Liz says you don't need to jet set around the globe to capture an Eat, Pray, Love experience.
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