Ocupation: Author
Life: b. July 18, 1969
Birthday: July 18
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.
source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black
topic: Spiritual, Order, Joy, Weighing, Devising, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book, Resourcefulness