Eat, Pray, Love

41 We are all given work here, and it turns out that my work assignment is to scrub the temple floors. So that’s where you can f ...

silence and listen... well, that’s a different story. When I ask my mind to rest in stillness, it is astonishing how quickly it ...

I’ve been practicing this Yoga. When I try to repeat Om Namah Shivaya in my head, it actually gets stuck in my throat, making my ...

42 The following morning, I arrive right on time for the 4:00 AM meditation session which al- ways starts the day here. We are m ...

Mind: Yes! Definitely! But try not to picture that the lake is covered with... what are those things called— Me: Jet Skis? Mind: ...

Me: Om Namah Shivaya... Om Namah Shivaya... Om Namah Shivaya... Here there is a promising eight-second pause in thoughts. But th ...

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Eat, Pray, Love ...

43 Dinnertime. I’m sitting alone, trying to eat slowly. My Guru is always encouraging us to practice discipline when it comes to ...

44 Among the many jobs that Richard from Texas has held in his life—and I know I’m leaving a lot of them out—are oil-field worke ...

I ever saw, and I was wondering where the room was where you have to give ’em all your money and turn over the deed to your hous ...

be out of work, and your heart’ll be making all the decisions. So your ego’s fighting for its life, playing with your mind, tryi ...

45 Going into that meditation cave every day is supposed to be this time of divine communion, but I’ve been walking in there lat ...

So I’ll sit with it here today. Ham-sa. I am That. Thoughts come, but I don’t pay much attention to them, other than to say to t ...

46 To understand what that experience was, what happened in there (by which I mean both “in the meditation cave” and “in me”) br ...

which true wisdom is acquired.” Unknowingly echoing the poems of the Persian Sufi mystic Hafiz, who demanded why, with a God so ...

is called “the blue pearl,” and it is the goal of every seeker to find it. Sure enough, this Tibetan monk, monitored during medi ...

it stared down at me from the walls. He seemed overwhelming. He wasn’t my kind of Guru. I’d always preferred my lovely, compassi ...

47 Two nights in a row now I’ve had dreams of a snake entering my room. I’ve read that this is spiritually auspicious (and not j ...

“I NEED YOUR HELP.” Then a long exhale of relief comes as, in my own handwriting, my own constant friend (who is it?) commences ...

48 The next morning’s meditation is a disaster. Desperate, I beg my mind to please step aside and let me find God, but my mind s ...