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MOVIE MONDAY IS BACK! …and I didn’t forget it this week! I promised I would…
MOVIE MONDAY IS BACK!
…and I didn't forget it this week!
I promised I would show this book trailer for my new novel "The Signature of All Things" once a week until October 1, when the book comes out.
I hope you enjoy it! It's a short little film, but I think it conveys nicely what this story is, and why it matters so much to me…and it's also cool to see the beautiful, collapsing Philadelphia estate upon which my heroine's fictitious home was modeled:
https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/video/
AND, of course, if you want to pre-order your copy, you can do so right here:
https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/books/the-signature-of-all-things/
Thank you a bajillion,
All love,
Liz
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"The Signature of All Things" promo trailer Elizabeth talks about THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity TEDTal
MOVIE MONDAY…Part One! Hello friends — I’ve been showing my book trailer ever…
MOVIE MONDAY…Part One!
Hello friends — I've been showing my book trailer every Monday (and I'm about to show it again) but I also wanted to share this video, made by a young man named Luke Rudowski. I met Luke yesterday (he was helping my friend Dave shoot a video for my newsletter) and he pointed me toward this work of his — a small film he made when he was at a deep and low point of despair in his life. He was telling me how the mere act of making this film, of approaching strangers and asking them such questions as "Are you more guided by fear or love?" and "What is meaning of life?" brought him out of his darkness, and once again into connection with humanity.
There's a moment in this video, toward the end, where a man says, "If you can't help people, at least don't hurt them," which is one of the best things I've heard in a very long while.
So here it is, in honor of Movie Monday, and of striving toward the light in general:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0oHlX8Kmxk&feature=youtu.be
heart,
Liz
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Question of the day: IS YOUR GUT INSTINCT YOUR GOD INSTINCT? A friend of this p…
Question of the day: IS YOUR GUT INSTINCT YOUR GOD INSTINCT?
A friend of this page named Janice raised this question in a post yesterday, wondering if there is some sort of faint thread that attaches us to the divine, and whether messages arrive for us in what we call our guts (our core, the center of us, the belly of the beast, the most sensitive and secret part of our physiology — the part that is not so distracted by our minds that it can't hear the truth.)
What do you guys think?
Is this where the truth comes in?
The most profound example of gut instinct I ever experienced was when I was in love with a man who simply could not love me healthily in return. But, twisted as the relationship was, I was crazy about this guy. I would have done anything for him, including lose my dignity completely. All I wanted was to be near him. Yet every night, when it came time to sleep beside him, my gut would keep me awake, shouting this message through my whole being: "GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS BED — IT'S NOT SAFE FOR YOU HERE!"
My heart would say, "Shut up, Gut — I love him!"
My brain would say, "Shut up, Gut — you're going to ruin this amazing love story for me!"
My soul would say, "Shut up, Gut — he's my destiny!"
But my gut would not shut up. It never stopped sounding the alarm, and it never relented. It just kept shouting: GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS BED — IT'S NOT SAFE FOR YOU HERE! And that alarming voice in my belly kept me awake, night after night, month after month, forbidding me to relax in that man's bed, until I finally had no choice but to listen…and to leave. Because my gut was absolutely right. There was nothing for me but danger in that love story. Danger and ruin. And my gut was not going to relent its agitation until I was out of there and safe. I honestly think if my gut could have pushed me out the window, it would have — just to get free.
There's an old adage: "The heart wants what it wants." Yeah, sure…but even more powerfully: "The gut knows what it knows."
So where does that instinct come from? Who is guiding the messenger within? Is this how God speaks to us? Or is it our own pre-intellectual instincts? And how often, and how carefully, do you listen to it? When has it saved you?
Discuss!
Hearts and guts,
Liz
A friend of this page named Marta sent this yesterday…I like it What about you…
A friend of this page named Marta sent this yesterday…I like it What about you all? Do you buy this idea or not? Is this inspiring to you, or does it not take into account certain mundane realities…or the necessity sometimes to plan? Is there anything you've been deferring too long?
'splain.
Heart,
Liz
Audiobook update… DUH, I forgot to mention that you can order it already, rig…
Audiobook update…
DUH, I forgot to mention that you can order it already, right here:
https://www.amazon.com/The-Signature-All-Things-Novel/dp/1611762022
("DUH" is not the kind of thing I can ever imagine Juliet Stevenson saying. Which is why she's reading it aloud, and not me.)
🙂
LG
The Signature of All Things: A Novel
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A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, ad…