Eat, Pray, Love

only for a master. I asked, “So if you go up to heaven in the first meditation, then, in the second meditation you must go down ...

I asked, “You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell—the destinat ...

88 So I was hanging out in Wayan’s shop again this morning, and she was trying to figure out how to make my hair grow faster and ...

“I’ve been doing everything but the vitamin E.” “So now you cured. And now you need a new man. I bring you one, from praying.” “ ...

Armenia laughed, but then seemed to consider the question seriously and answered, “Well, I always tried to look nice and be femi ...

89 I can’t remember the last time I got dressed up, but this evening I dug out my one fancy spaghetti-strap dress from the botto ...

only without the beach. There was a live band of Balinese kids playing good reggae music, and the place was mixed up with revele ...

At the end of the evening, Ian and I admitted to each other how nice it had been to meet. He asked if I had a phone number and I ...

90 Am I young and beautiful? I thought I was old and divorced. I can barely sleep at all this night, so unaccustomed to these od ...

curate channeling of my old friend Richard, saying, Oh, that’s genius, Groceries—didja get a lobotomy last night, in addition to ...

91 “What is this life? Do you understand? I don’t.” This was Wayan talking. I was back in her restaurant, eating her delicious a ...

much forget about Tutti ever getting enough education to go someday to Animal Doctor Col- lege. Other factors have emerged over ...

that one tiny blue square for hours on end, shutting her eyes and pretending she’s inside her own house. What can I say? When I ...

92 Wayan once told me that sometimes when she’s healing her patients she becomes an open pipeline for God’s love, and she ceases ...

I won’t go through the entire drama of the week, or try to explain what it feels like to open e-mails every day from all over th ...

93 I don’t want to tell Wayan about it, not until all the money has been raised. It’s hard to keep a big secret like this, espec ...

him talking it all day long.) I like that he’s traveled through over fifty countries in his life, and that he sees the world as ...

and eat well together and we tell each other the nicest stories we can remember about former spouses, just to take the sting out ...

94 I asked Ketut, my old medicine man, “What do you know about romance?” He said, “What is this, romance?” “Never mind.” “No—wha ...

A sad smile. “It was her time to die. Now I tell you how I find my wife. When I am twenty- seven years, I meet a girl and I love ...