Eat Pray Love

Have you read this book by Elizabeth Gilbert? What was your take? Did you learn anything from it? Or rather, did you read something that moved you to change a perspective or an approach to something? Do you meditate? Have you ever tried to listen to your thoughts?

Often times there's a disconnect between what comes out of our mouth and our innermost thoughts. Thoughts are often filtered through our ego before making it to somebody else's ears. We care too much to preserve our image to just tell folks the raw thought.

I'm in the Pray chapter and it's getting a bit weird to me, but I'm also taking a lot from it. In this chapter, Gilbert describes how her connection with God through meditation, yoga, ect is helping her to heal from broken relationships, depression and to learn to have more compassion for HERSELF. What I find appealing is that while the chapter is heavily about connecting with God, it's not geared toward any particular religion. What she is experiencing could be done whether you were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, ect.

This type of message works for me because I've never been super religiousy. I'm not the woman that will go to Church for the sake of not appearing to be a heathen to other people. I (and most people see through) that bullish. If you can't see that I'm a good person despite the fact that I don't go to church every Sunday...something is wrong with you, not me. But I admit, at times I feel guilt or shame for not completely jumping on the Jesus train. That's simply not me, never has never will be. But I do thank God, talk to God, get irritated with God for the challenges that he presents...ect. To me, God is not limited to descriptions in a book. Divinity can be experienced ANYWHERE by ANYONE. Perhaps I need to let go of that guilt and really figure out what works for me. I want divine love just as much as the next person...but perhaps I need a different language to get me there.