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A nice new interview about “The Signature of All Things”! https://www.motherjone…
A nice new interview about "The Signature of All Things"!
Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, "Burn Everything Down and Run"
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The best-selling author on "polite botanists," the travel bug, and her first new novel in 13 years.
Prayer of the day… Dear Ones — I wanted to share this with you. A beautiful…
Prayer of the day…
Dear Ones — I wanted to share this with you. A beautiful sort of prayer, by the philosopher Rudolph Steiner. I have always loved this one because of the second to last line: "My life will become more burdensome to me." It seems so contrary, doesn't it? It feels like, when you come into truth with your fate, your star and your aims that your life should feel LESS burdensome. But I think what he means (and I have found this to be true) that it is sometimes more difficult to FEEL than to not feel. Easier in a way to be closed off and in denial, than to seek your truth and maybe open yourself to oain. But that's a burden I welcome…to be alive instead of numb, and to genuinely allow myself to feel the beautiful and sad and complete weight of living. That is the fullest richness you can imagine — to feel everything. Bring it, I say.
Anyway, here it is…and let me know if you interpret it differently:
"I feel my fate
My fate finds me
I feel my star
My star finds me
I feel my aims
My aims find me
My soul and the world are one.
Life will be clearer around me
Life will be more burdensome for me
Life will be richer for me."
Rudolph Steiner
NEWS FOR THE U.K.! Dearest residents of the British Isles — Kindly do come…
NEWS FOR THE U.K.!
Dearest residents of the British Isles —
Kindly do come see me in October, when I shall come to your fair land!
I will be speaking about my new book "The Signature of All Things" on several occasions and in several locations across the UK…
October 22, I will be in conversation with my beautiful and glamorous British editor Alexandra Pringles at the Bloomsbury offices in London.
October 23, I will speak in Dublin at the Liberty Hall Theater.
October 24, I will speak in Manchester, at The Portico Library.
And October 25, I will speak in London at the Southbank Centre in London, in an event presented with Glamour Magazine.
ALL ticket links and information can be found here, on the events page of my website, along with all my travels across the USA this autumn, and Europe:
https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/events/
New events are being added all the time (coming up: Amsterdam, Paris, Oslo, Italy, Brazil and Slovenia!) so keep your eyes on that page.
Meanwhile, enjoy the beautiful British cover of the novel, in all its emerald glory…
Cheers!
Liz
BREAKING GOOD! So the other day I posed a photo of me kneeling on top of the…
BREAKING GOOD!
So the other day I posed a photo of me kneeling on top of the 2000 copies of "The Signature of All Things" that I was about to attempt to sign in one morning. (Did it, by the way!). The next day, a friend of this page named Janis sent me THIS — a photo comparison of me on my books next to Walt and Skylar (with all their ill-earned cash) from "Breaking Bad".
Janis, you have no idea how hard this made me laugh. As a compulsive "Breaking Bad" fan (is there any other kind?) I, too, had felt like I was having a very Heisenbergian moment, stradling all that loot!
Anyhow, after I posted that photo of me atop the 2000 about-to-be-signed books, some of you asked where you could get one. They will be spread across bookstores all over the land, but I just wanted to let you know that Barnes & Noble is already taking pre-orders for signed copies, if you want to be sure to get one:
Meanwhile, my sweet friends, please don't forget: I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS.
Love,
Liz
My first response to “The Signature of All Things” from Bulgaria…SO COOL!
My first response to "The Signature of All Things" from Bulgaria…SO COOL!
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Dear Elizabeth, greetings from Bulgaria! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your new book! A brilliant story, brilliantly written! Love, Tsvetana Toleva