180. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilber
Quite a page turner. I enjoyed reading the woman's experience in her self-seeking and recovery journey. But the woman's abit annoying though.. kinda self-absorbed and abit of a drama queen. At many points that i was reading the book, i wish i could tell it to her face to get over it and not to make a mountain out of a molehill.
I really like the Eat and the Love chapter. Eat, because it was my fav subject :D. Love because it was set in Indonesia, and read it with eagerness because i want to know someone else's experience of this country that i have love/hate relationship with. The 'Pray' chapter was abit .. ngeh. I couldn't identify with the woman at all in this chapter. She's too self-absorbed, and everything is about her, which put me off reading. But i do like this part:
"A Sankrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means 'one who lives at the border.' It indicated a person who had left the bustling centre of wordly life to go live at the edge of the forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. The antevasin was not one of the villagers anymore... not a householder with conventional life. But neighter was he yet a transcendent, not one of those sages who live deep in the unexplored woods, fully realised. The antevasin was as in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown....
In a figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving.. as you advance forward in your studies and realisation, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, moveable, supple.
I really like the Eat and the Love chapter. Eat, because it was my fav subject :D. Love because it was set in Indonesia, and read it with eagerness because i want to know someone else's experience of this country that i have love/hate relationship with. The 'Pray' chapter was abit .. ngeh. I couldn't identify with the woman at all in this chapter. She's too self-absorbed, and everything is about her, which put me off reading. But i do like this part:
"A Sankrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means 'one who lives at the border.' It indicated a person who had left the bustling centre of wordly life to go live at the edge of the forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. The antevasin was not one of the villagers anymore... not a householder with conventional life. But neighter was he yet a transcendent, not one of those sages who live deep in the unexplored woods, fully realised. The antevasin was as in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown....
In a figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving.. as you advance forward in your studies and realisation, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, moveable, supple.
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