
Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Pray Love Is the End, Not at Life
I want to live in a world full of explorers and generous souls, rather than people who have voluntarily become prisoners of their own fortresses. What i really needed was to just be alone and as far away from every one in the world as i could get. I decided for ten days i wasn't going to speak. And i ended up getting sick. On an island off the coast of lumba and andonesia, and rented a a thatched cottage on the beach for ten dollars a day. There was this woman who used to be standing outside her house every time i walked by, and she would see me and smile at me. That's what it means to be deeply g
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