A few months ago when one of my friends recommended this book to me saying, "you should read it, it's good" I didn't want to, I didn't like the title and I did not like the cover (I know this is totally lame but I couldn't help it). Then another friend told me "you have to read it " and I got over my prejudices and read it.
Like on all "New York Time best sellers' books a short description can be found, " A women's search for everything, across Italy, India and Indonesia”. Now I don't know about "everything", but she made this journey to find God in order to find her inner peace; from a book like this (honestly the first impression is that it is a chick flick) this is a very ambitious theme and totally got my interest.
This girl has a broken heart and when your heart is broken everything around you is broken to.
Italy - the place where her appetite comes back. She actually became alive, enjoying life again.
India - the place where through meditation, praying, she ‘understands’, I wouldn't say that she understood everything, she just understood herself, letting the pain go
Indonesia - the place where she finds love
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The Yoga sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I’m a failure ... I'm lonely. I'm a failure... I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop chocking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras
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