Eat, Pray, Love

“Don’t get angry about it, whatever happens. If you get angry, you’ll lose her, and that would be a pity because she’s a marvelo ...

word that has been more emotionally incorporated into Balinese than almost any other in the English language. It’s one of the ve ...

aro from the farmer (whose “wife” suddenly didn’t seem to mind breaking up the property). There was no need, as it turns out, fo ...

107 The place we end up going on vacation is a tiny island called Gili Meno, located off the coast of Lombok, which is the next ...

with a single path that goes around it, and you can walk the whole circumference in about an hour. It’s located almost exactly o ...

Actually, that’s not true. One person talked to me, every day. It was this little kid, one of a gang of kids who run up and down ...

grief would surface. I would regard it, experience it, bless it, and invite it into my heart, too. I did this with every sorrowf ...

tasting it as I left the beach and walked back to the little shack where I was staying. I found an empty notebook, opened it up ...

108 And now I’m coming back to Gili Meno under notably different circumstances. Since I was last here, I’ve circled the world, s ...

and maturity! I need you to grow into me!” And maybe it was this present and fully actualized me who was hovering four years ago ...

Eat, Pray, Love Final Recognition and Reassurance A few months after I’d left Indonesia, I returned to visit loved ones and to c ...

Together they wove a net beneath my tightrope without which—quite simply—I would not have been able to write this book. I don’t ...