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Abstract
The author of The Last American Man creates an attractive, candid, and eloquent relationship of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.
By the time she had her thirty birthday, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern, educated, aspiring American lady was expected to desire a partner, a house in the country, a successful business. Unfortunately she was not fortunate and cheerful, she was consumed with panic, grief and muddiness. She had a separation, a crushing depression, another failed love and the complete destruction of all she ever thought she was expected to be.
To recover from all that mess, Gilbert took a ultra radical step. since she required the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her material possessions, cancelled her job, left her loved ones behind and undertook a year-long journey around the world, by herself. Eat, Pray, Love is the story of that year. Gilbert’s aim was to travel to three places, where she could study one view of her own nature, put against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Italy, she learned about the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and putting on weight with the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of worship, where, with the assistance of a native religious leader and an amazingly clever Texan, she embarked on four months of severe religious exploration. Finally, in Indonesia, she found her ultimate objects: proportion and namely, how to in some manner make a life of equilibrium between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. Looking for these answers on the island of Bali, she became the student of an aged, MD and also fell in love in the best possible way; unexpectedly.
A memoir of defining yourself, Eat, Pray, Love is about what may happen when you take responsibility for your own contentment. It is also about the surprising, which can change when a lady starts to live on her own. This is a story that will inspire anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.