So the holy truth of the whole adventure here in India is in one line: God dwells within you, as you. God's not interested in watching a performance of how a spiritual person looks and behaves, the quiet girl who glides silently through the place with a gentle, ethereal smile. Who is that person? It's Ingrid Bergman in The Bells of St Mary's, not me. God dwells within me, as me.

-- Eat Pray Love

You must be very polite with yourself when you learn something new.

-- Eat Pray Love

In the end, I've come to believe in something I call The Physics of the Quest, a force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: if you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey either externally or internally, 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 very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

-- Eat Pray Love