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#430: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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I'm Willing to Give Up Everything, Cause This Is My Source of Light

i. Am is a book about the spiritual journey that i went on when i was going through a very bad divorce. The main thing is the silencing of the mind, and it's really ironic to me that one of the ways to drop into wordless oneness - which has been studied by neurologists - is by writing. I'm willing to be a diner waitress and a bartender and an a pair and somebody who sells jewelry at fleamarkets because this is my source of light," she says. "There's nothing, there's nothing you can give it that will satisfy it"...

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