lines i highlighted in this book..
in ITALY
having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face, you really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
the only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying, the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
true wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment.
i wanted to be all ghandi about this, i wanted to be all mandela about this, not realizing at the time that both ghandi and mandela were lawyers.
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of girl scout cookies.
because how could two people who are so in love not end up happily ever after? it had to work.
but why must everything always have a practical explanation?
better to live a life of single-pointed focus.
the great sufi poet and philospoher rumi once advised his students to write down three things they wanted most in life. if any item on the list clashes with any other item, rumi warned you are destined for unhappiness.
i feel more comfortable praying for courage to face whatever occurs in my life with equanimity, no matter how things turn out.
i felt the early symptoms of contentment.
in rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper very much like the weather or the tv schedule.
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
experience teaches us that the world is no nursery.
you must be very polite with yourself when you're learning something new.
we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to suspend the whole weekend in our
pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the tv in a mild coma.
so sadness is a place, giovanni asked. sometimes people live there for years, i said.
the augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who i am, what i represent, who i belong to or what function i may once have intended to serve.
do not apologize for crying, without this emotion, we are only robots.
parla come magni - say it like you eat it.
it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
in INDIA
true knowledge is impossible without a guru.
true knowledge is impossible without a guru.
pray is the act of talking to God while meditation is the act of listening.
your emotions are the slave to your thoughts and you are the slave to your emotions.
in the present is the only place to find God and now is the only time.
you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because when you do, it becomes a tendency and it
happens over and over again
your ego's job isn't to serve you, its only job is to keep itself in power.
a true soulmate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
you gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
devotion is diligence without assurance.
keep cultivating gratitude.
in INDONESIA
sit. and smile.
happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people.
as above, so below.
the universe provides, it's all peace and harmony out there.
to lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
sometimes you count the days sometimes you weigh them.
all pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy