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Eat, Love and Pray

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If I could do just that for a whole week. What I would give to have been in Elizabeth Gilbert's shoes. I fell in love with Rome and the Italian language just by her story telling. There are many feelings that roamed her mind that I can relate to, the doubts, the uncertainties and the vulnerability. Yet I admire the way she was able to do exactly what she did. Of course one must have the resources, but one must also have that inner push which she had to help the outer push (her 'divine' experience) propel her forward. There's a lot of truth about the subject of religion as relayed by Lizz without putting a label on it,  it's almost identifiable in all the religions that are out there (most of them). I could feel her tumult at the beginning and I could sense the gradual diminishing of it during her stay in Bali. It isn't about romance or companionship or performing duty or charity or morality, it is about finding an inner peace in the mind that means cont