Eat, Pray, Love

03/01/2011 18:18:00

Having run out of the type of fiction books I've been currently reading and unable to find the next in the series that I've been enjoying ( a romantic fantasy with female mercenaries and male wizards) and unable to acquire the book based on a current movie that has set fire to my imagination (I am Number Four - does that tell you something about my psyche?), I have been forced to search through the multitude of books we have at my house in an attempt at finding my next fiction to read. Something I haven't already read. Something I can read more than a few pages of (I am picky) or something that the hero and/or heroine won't drive me crazy (can't stomach TSTL - writer code for Too Stupid To Live - characters). So what do I have..... Dean Koontz - read them all but the Odd Thomas (sorry Odd just can't get into you),.... Jude Deveraux or Johanna Lindsey - read too many times,.... Kristan Higgins - Love but have read them all too (although Kristan recently informed me that I will have a cameo in one of her upcoming books - look for the owner of a bar named Rosebud. Can't wait to read it!) So I'm searching, searching away (for although I enjoy what I call my homework books -and I'm almost finished with Garden of Pomegranates and am still in the first half of the Book of Enoch) for the latest fiction to read, when my eyes fall on a book that has been laying there all alone on the bookshelf. It's a book I haven't read yet. But I hesitate, it's one of my sister's books and lets just say our taste are just slightly different. I'm a happily ever after kind of girl and my sister likes those soul searching kind of tragedy books (not always but enough and I am so not a believer in 'I have to live through trauma after trauma to finally on the last page realize that hey! Life can be good. Sorry, as you can see I'm opinionated.) So I look at it and I hesitate some more but since I am in a serious lack of good fiction I figure why not and I start reading it because it's better than nothing and I am an avid reader. In the first chapter I'm drawn in. I like her voice, her candidness, and her wit. I continue to read and realize that the author is on the same path we all are - that of finding out who we truly are down to our divine self. This book is the writers discovery of the divine and her innermost self and although most of us don't have the luxury (at this point) to go off for a year to live in three different countries with the agenda to simply explore ourselves, we have other means to do so. We find our own wonderful teachers, people who are knowledgeable and wise, who have walked the path we are walking right now. Teachers who will encourage us to continue and in some cases push us to do so. For we, too, are looking for the deepest part of ourselves and sometimes even we must face the darkiest part but with each little piece we are able to view the start of the whole puzzle of who we are in all aspects and in just one. And as we progress (each of us at our own speed) we step into who we are truly here to be in this physical world and then we begin to move beyond the physical to the spiritual essence of us. We release our limitations to embrace the limitless, joyful, complete US.
We each have begun our own journey back to ourselves, our soul, our spirit, just as the heroine does in the book I have just begun. We learn that in doing so we find out what we truly want or need in our lives. We find that we can have all we dream and that we don't have to suffer or sacrifice, and in the end we achieve the most important piece of all. We achieve Ourselves.

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