Virtual HAPPINESS JARS!
Virtual HAPPINESS JARS!
Happiness Jar
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Your year's jar of happiness.
Eat Pray Love in Arabic!
Eat Pray Love in Arabic!
BOOK OF THE DAY https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547504-far-from-the-tree…
BOOK OF THE DAY
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547504-far-from-the-tree
Dear Ones —
Has anyone (or hopefully everyone) yet read Andrew Solomon's masterpiece, "Far From the Tree"?
It is a brilliant and humane examination of family and resilience and humility and confusion and loyalty and difference and love. I am reading it with a pen in my hand and tears in my eyes, and I find myself marking up page after page as I go. I want everyone to read it.
I will offer up this one quote which caused me to catch my breath, and which I suspect we can all relate to, in aspects of our own lives:
"A Buddhist scholar once explained to me that most Westerners mistakenly think that Nirvana is what you arrive at when your suffering is over and only an eternity of happiness stretches ahead. But such bliss would always be shadowed by the sorrows the past, and would therefore be imperfect. Nirvana occurs when you not only look forward to rapture, but also gaze back into the times of anguish and find in them the seeds of your own joy."
Please go get your hands on this book, friends. "Far from the Tree." It is great.
Far from the Tree
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From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the wri…
Hey everyone! Are you in Texas, by any chance? South Texas, to be exact? Becaus…
Hey everyone!
Are you in Texas, by any chance? South Texas, to be exact? Because I'm about to get on a plane and come see you!
I'm going to be speaking at two charity benefits for two WONDERFUL organizations this week in South Texas.
The first event is Wednesday night, in Laredo, for the fantastic operation, Casa de Misericordia, which benefits abused and battered women. There are no more tickets for this event, but here is their website if you would like to learn more about their great mission, or support the organization:
https://www.mercy.net/casa-de-misericordia
The second event is Thursday night in McAllen, Texas, to benefit an organization called "Infinite Love", which provides help and hope to the underprivileged and to those with disabilities and chronic illness. There still ARE tickets available for this event, so click here:
https://loveisinfinite.org/2012/04/04/eat-pray-love-author-in-mcallen/
At both events, I will be speaking and taking questions from the audience. I am so looking forward to these two events, and to these two evenings, which I expect will be basically just big warm baths of love.
Please share this post with anyone you know in South Texas, OK? Or with anyone who wants to make a road trip out of it. (And if my old friend Shell is out there, I would sure love to see you! Pass this along, all you Vogts!)
Thank you, Texas! See you real soon…
xo
Liz
Eat, Pray, Love Author in McAllen | Infinite Love
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“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” – Eliz…
A HAPPINESS JAR that is already looking rather full!
A HAPPINESS JAR that is already looking rather full!
My happiness jar 🙂 I think you are so inspiring. I just love your writing. I read "Eat, Pray, Love" many times, and I've read "Committed," as well. I'm onto my third Liz Gilbert book now! Keep writing, your words bring so much happiness to me and so many others.
