My mom used to tell people that I’m on my “Eat pray love journey” when she told people I was on the race. In a few ways thats true.
I am eating new foods, I’m praying significantly more then I ever did, and I’m learning to love people in new ways.
Here’s some quotes from the movie that I can relate to..
Like the movie, I’ve abandoned my old life in search for a new one.
I’ve learned to truly love myself.
I’ve learned how to connect with the Holy Spirit.
I’ve learned that “Ruin is a gift, it leads to transformation”
I’ve learned that “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Cause if you can’t master your thoughts, you’re in trouble forever.”
I’ve learned that “you must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation.”
“In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’ … The rules of quest physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and set out on a truth seeking journey either internally or externally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared most of all to face and forgive some of the most difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be witheld from you.”
If you’re looking for more in life, know that truth can be found in Jesus. It can be found in abandoning your old life in search for something that fills your soul.
“We [as humans] imagine what does not exist and if we bring together the courage and competency, that imagination becomes reality, we have dreams of a life we have never lived and then some of us find the insanity to pursue that dream and make it our lives. We have an idea of a world that should exist and some people find the courage and resolve to not surrender to what is, but surrender to what must become.” -Erwin McManus
