"God dwells within you, as you.












Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
More Elizabeth Gilbert quotes
"Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
"I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live i...
"I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
"I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you ca...
"Culturally, though not theologically, I’m a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great tea...
"I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything thi...
"But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me t...
"But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pi...
"The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees. For hours a day, the sa...
"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the ...
"All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simpl...
"Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic p...
"I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunl...