Eat, Pray, Love

69 By the way, I found my word. I found it in the library, of course, bookworm that I am. I’d been wondering about my word ever ...

Italian phrases and Bali dreams, Elizabeth, between and betwixt, Sometimes as slippery as a fish... I’ve spent so much time thes ...

70 I believe that all the world’s religions share, at their core, a desire to find a transporting metaphor. When you want to att ...

the word God and who has the proper rituals to reach that God, it may be useful to remember that it is not the tying of the cat ...

I have many friends in New York who are not religious people. Most, I would say. Either they fell away from the spiritual teachi ...

likely and conservative of places, you can find sometimes this glimmering idea that God might be bigger than our limited religio ...

71 My flight leaves India at four in the morning, which is typical of how India works. I decide not to go to sleep at all that n ...

Eat, Pray, Love ...

72 Two Poems from an Ashram in India First All this talk of nectar and bliss is starting to piss me off. I don’t know about you, ...

the National Guard won’t go near them. My path was beaten unconscious before me, by a small brown man I never got to see, who ch ...

fresh-mown grass from this place, I’d do it. If they’d let me make out with every single Eucalyptus tree in Ganesh’s Grove, I sw ...

I’d finish only half my plate, Then sleep all night on the rest. Eat, Pray, Love Eat, Pray, Love ...

73 I’ve never had less of a plan in my life than I do upon arrival in Bali. In all my history of careless travels, this is the m ...

All I have for sure is his name—Ketut Liyer—and the memory that he lives in a village just outside the town of Ubud. But I don’t ...

74 But Bali is a fairly simple place to navigate. It’s not like I’ve landed in the middle of the Su- dan with no idea of what to ...

be a lovely place to live for a while. The town is sort of like a small Pacific version of Santa Fe, only with monkeys walking a ...

Wayan who owns Café Wayan.” Somebody else might be known as “Fat Made,” or “Nyoman- Rental-Car” or “Stupid-Ketut-Who-Burned-Down ...

75 So this is how it comes to pass that—the very afternoon I have arrived in Bali—I’m sud- denly on the back of a motorbike, clu ...

classic kung fu movies, a form of English you could call “Grasshopperese,” because you could insert the endearment “Grasshopper” ...

things that you know.” I don’t like the way my voice sounds—just the teensiest bit desperate. I don’t mention anything about the ...