So of course the "eat pray love" movie sets your mind "packing".
Thanks husband for getting me the soundtrack: awesome gift as I am now reliving the scenes and the magic.
In Elizabeth Gilbert's book, page 128, she talks about something dear to me: contentment.
quoted from her book:
"The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
Different schools of thought over the centirues have found different explanations for man's apparently inherently flawed state.
Taoists call it imbalance, Buddism calls it ignorance, Islam blames our misery on rebellion against God and the Judeo-Christian tradition attributes all our suffering to original sin."
Freudians say that unhappiness is the inevitable result of the clash between our natural drives and civilization's needs.The Yogi's say that our human discontentment is a simple case of mistaken identity. We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone in our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there exists a supreme Self who is eternally at peace.
"you bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not"
Greek stoic philosopher, Epictetus.
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Person of the week: Antonie Christoffel Swanepoel. For movie & dinner, for DIY, for friendship for the Eat-Pray-Love soundtrack, for tonight's burger and being there for me.
I wish you the wisdom of the owl and a great big catch on Smalblaar!
blessings & love, Maria
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