Eat Pray Love

this book really touched me in many ways. My book will be in the same genre of self exploration, spirituality, travel and of course, love. I bookmarked parts of it that resonated with me particularly so I will periodically share them on here. 

I had a long discussion with my father about Faith versus logic. he is an atheist psychiatrist so I felt frustrated that he couldn't understand it but he did listen and hear me out. This piece below reminded me of what I was trying to communicate to him, that faith is such a blind force and there is no way to prove it, thats its something you feel not something you can understand but it involves trust in what is beyond your control.

The buddhist approach to it involves the law of detachment and the law of uncertainty, that all you can do is put your Intention out there and have Faith that it Will bring you what you need. Its ironic because the stronger you believe in it the more likely you are to see "proof" of it, yet if you are doubtful, you might miss all the signs. 

I only became spiritual in the past couple years after an experience in India. I am recently feeling a yearning to go back there....

"If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be, by definition, faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face first and full speed into the dark, if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of god and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity, it would just be, a prudent insurance policy".  

"Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship, a play between divine grace and willfull self effort. Half of it you have no control over; half of it is abcsolutely in your hands, and your actions will show measureable consequence. Man is neither entirely a pupper of the gods, nor is he entirely the captain of his own destiny, hes a little of both. We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side by side horses, one foot is on the horse called Fate, the other is on the horse called Free Will. And the question you have to ask very day is, which horse is which?which horse do I need to stop worrying about because its not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?"    

                                                                                                                                                                          Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love, (found image online)