Everyone, women and men, should hear this. Elizabeth Gilbert has a way of expressing these concepts in such an engaging way. Such an amazing gift she has!
Wow. Her every word resonates with me at deeper personal level. Today listening to her made me feel seen so much. Experience is the biggest & realest teacher. Thank You Elizabeth. You amazed me and fired me up during my darkest times in COVID by your insights. You turned out to be a guiding light. Wooooooow. So glad i found you.
I have experienced this personally on the Buddhist path from 14 I put myself in violating positions when I wasn't enlightened I was just a girl trying to figure it out, as a 'good person'...thanks for validating that.
What a beautiful way to frame this! She is a wonderful storyteller, human being! This speech is just WOW!! The way she speaks, it's healing itself! Thank you, Liz!
OMG I literally just created a new playlist with like mega super favorite talks (and it’s my #1 hobby this days, so I listen to a-lot), I-must-never-ever-forget-this-mindblowingmessage, because I truly need to have this more present. Hope both men and women get to hear. I am sharing for sure!
Oh my god!! Brilliant!! But check out Ireland's Saint Bridgid. A holiday has been declared to her here which I think will come to rival Saint Patricks day but in a female fashion
I loved learning that when the Irish were fighting the Romans, the women were fighting right alongside the men. There was no “help me save me.” It was “hand me my sword”
I think she's confusing self with ego in a couple of places. Everyone has ego - it is essential for getting things done in the world. Aligning the self with soul rather than purely with the ego is good for everyone, and I can see how that works differently for men and women. (Caroline Myss is good on the topic of soul and ego.) Love the example of Kali and drawing a circle around the self/soul! ❤
I get many of the points she makes about negative human traits etc. But where does she get all the divine feminine, divine masculine stuff from. She says women don't need to die to self, yet the bible says the opposite. We need to die to self, in the flesh dwells no good thing. The more we doe to our selfish pride, the more God can come into our lives and work through us. I understand that people are searching for answers and like everyone, I'm painfully aware of my own failings. Yet, we need to be careful of creating these ideas in our own minds, creating a god in our own minds. There is a real God and real standard to live by. The lessons in the bible about letting go of self, is for all humans, not just men. Her talk may sound nice on the face of it, but it goes against the bible.
Not everyone believes in the Bible. I was raised Catholic. There are a lot of great, general teachings in the Bible but there is a lot I don't agree with. I don't forget that it is a man-made book that has been revised many times over history. We all have God within us and I believe all of us combined is what God truly is. It's all just a push and pull of energy experiencing this world in different forms in order to advance a higher knowledge. Feminine and masculine are just the forms that different energies take. We've lost the balance over millions of years which is why she brought up the masculine (Jesus, Buddha, etc.) being worshipped for being balanced with naturally feminine traits brought them to the image of enlightened ones. Women, who in form, naturally embody more empathetic and giving traits are more balanced with boundaries.
@@coolbreeze5683 I too don't believe what the Roman Catholic Church teaches. I'm a born again Christian. Catholicism has many problematic teachings. That's why it's important to read the bible ourselves. We have the root scriptures. Look into the Dead Sea scrolls. It sounds like you believe in a very new age, man centred Jesus. God within, become enlightened kind of thing. I don't agree with that. God is outside of ourselves. But we can come into one with Him via the Holy Spirit when we repent and are born again. Which Jesus spoke of.
@@TonyQuinn-Art I don't believe in a man centered Jesus. I believe in a higher power which is the energy that we are all a part of. No "Him", no one to seek permission from, no one to fear. To me, it's not about being "enlightened" (that was the word Elizabeth used in a sarcastic tone and I echoed to emphasize that). It's about realizing we're all pieces of the same energy that comes from the whole. Since we're all on Earth and in human bodies, some choose to play the game of reading from man-made (in some cases fictional) teachings to try to make sense of our lives and try to find purpose. It's ok to play the game because that's why we're on this Earth but I believe that in the grand scheme of things, this all doesn't really matter. We just all make this playground for eachother to experience different things, highs and lows. I understand Elizabeth's explanation of trying to reach balance (masculine, feminine, profane, divine, etc), because I know it's all part of the game we play here on Earth. If people find comfort in books, different beliefs or religions, that's all good. I found something beyond that in my own life but as I mentioned, anyone can believe in whatever feels right for them.
This is such a dangerous message. No, giving up the self has nothing to do with codependence, there is an OTHER self ( the soul) that you start living from. Jesus was not telling men to become creatures without discernment and boundaries. Giving up egocentricity has nothing whatsoever to do with gender. The "kindness" that you "allowed" Elisabeth has NOTHING WHAT SO EVER to do with giving up self. Look closer, you were trading with him: you wanted something from him, THAT is why you stayed. And you acted not from love to him but from scarcity and fear. Simple
She is accepting the truth about herself.... She was naive n ignorant...this entire talk is for lifting both men n women above trading each other for survival... Being a woman, how to give more without losing herself 😊...
