Best Of Elizabeth Gilbert's "All the Way to the River"
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert I sometimes used to call this behaviour "being a free spirit," but my wild instability was quite the opposite of freedom, because I had no agency in the matter—only urgency. Also, if I was so "free," why did I always end up feeling trapped? It's because my moves were motivated by desperate situations in which I was running either toward somebody or away from somebody else. I constantly found myself in stories that started out with passion but ended up with shame. p.63 That was the plan: to have no plan anymore but God's plan [...]They discovered that the question " What is thy will for me ?" seemed to open the door to divinity quite nicely. Whenever they asked that question with sincere humility, they actually heard and felt guidance arriving [...] p.138 Gilbert is actually quoting her sponsor below, and this quote reminded me of ...
