Eat Pray Love is chock full of material for inspiration - the discovering and claiming of oneself, the meaning of God to an individual, the act of meditation, the quest for life balance, the beauty of surrendering to the magic that is to love and to live life.
I just finished watching the movie and find myself ever so similar to Liz when she was still in New York - wrecked by relationships, longing for peace and determined to figure out what she wants. I am determined to do the same and, though I cannot hightail it out of here bound for Rome, India and Bali, I can and did start with something.....food.
There's a moment in Rome when Liz takes the time to practice la dolce far niente - the sweetness of doing nothing. She made the most beautiful plate of art - crusty bread, silky smoked salmon, tender and crispy asparagus, milky bocconcini, olives, egg and phyllo-encased feta...all of it drizzled in olive oil, sat on the floor of her Roman apartment in her new silk gown and read the paper in the filtered light.
I'm not in a silk gown, nor am I in Rome but I made my own plate of art and I hereby vow to perfect the practice of la dolce far niente.
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