One woman s search for everything across italy.
Eat pray love bathroom floor.
She has made several friends.
Start reading an excerpt from the book eat pray love by elizabeth gilbert.
Summary book 1 chapter 4 gilbert now returns to her memory of the night on her bathroom floor three years previous when she became interested only in saving my life she had never spoken directly to god before but now she begs for help.
She didn t know where to start but then one evening she collapsed on the bathroom floor in prayer.
After a painful divorce and a love affair that ended author elizabeth gilbert needed help mending her broken heart.
After an ugly divorce and a doomed love affair on the rebound.
She needed to be strong.
An unsuccessful attempt at a memoir from novelist and journalist gilbert the last american man 2002 etc while weeping one night on the bathroom floor because her marriage was falling apart the author had a profound spiritual experience crying out to and hearing an answer of sorts from god.
And gilbert is no longer just an author who wrote a memoir she is a sought after speaker even a self help guru.
Italy as eat pray love opens it is the middle of november and elizabeth gilbert is in rome.
The book begins with elizabeth lying on the bathroom floor of her house in new york and crying for the 47th consecutive night.
Not only was eat pray love a light trendy self exploration story set in exotic locations it has also inspired many to live a creative life to its fullest.
She feels the overwhelming need to be free from her marriage without fuss.
But the anecdotal evidence suggests that its readers are using eat pray love as a shortcut to.
But i share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life almost like one of those crazy astronomical super.
Reprinted from the national best seller eat pray love by arrangement with penguin.
She is spending the first third of a year abroad in italy intent on mastering the italian language.
See plot diagram summary book 1.
A small inner voice said go back to bed that s exactly what she needed rest.
Hearing the voice of god on the bathroom floor for the first time in my life i really really prayed.
The answer she receives is simple go back to bed liz but it is profound for her and just the right response.
I don t know that i ve had my bathroom floor moment and maybe i need to.