Memo on Eat Pray Love

Characters: Liz Gilbert (茱莉亞 Roberts), Giovanni (Javier Bardem), David (詹姆士 Edward Franco), Ketut Liyer

- Rome:
+ Relationship是很多人一輩子的重要課題，即使是來自Cambodia的refugee和boat people也不例外。

+ Keep grounded, so it's like you have four legs. In that way, you can stay in the world. Also, not looking at the world through your head, look through your heart instead. In that way, you will know God. —— Ketut Liyer

+ 茱莉亞 Roberts的爽朗笑聲

+ When Liz prayed to God, a voice gently told her to go back to bed. That was not God's voice but the inner voice of Liz, which actually was the living god in everyone.

+ I need to change.
   I want to go some place where I can marvel at sth.
   Appetite for food, for life... —— Liz
   
   That's true to me. A place where I can marvel at sth. is one of the perfect therapies to me, such as Prague, Amsterdam...

+ You want to know how to be here, then stop constantly waiting for sth. —— David

   You are the only one who can figure out how you get where you are. What you did make who you are; What you are doing make who you will be.

+ An old Italian joke: —— 神啊，讓我中彩票吧！
                   —— 那你能先買張彩票嗎？

  Get a ticket first. Whether you can win the lottery or not is simply a matter of time and luck, both of which is not in your consideration, Just as what Schrudinger's cat indicates.

+ The sweetness of doing nothing (dolcee far nirentee)
   Pleasure (義大利人的享樂哲學) —— Luca Spaghetti & Giovanni

+ Gesture絕對是義大利語不可或缺的一部份。個人認為這一情節是影片的亮點，實在太歡樂了。

+ A woman in search of a word —— Sofi to Liz

   Are you in search of a word? Is the word who you are?

+ 漂亮衣服，不為誰，just for you. —— Sofi to Liz

+ Augusteum, built by Octavian Augustus.
   Ruin is a gift.
   Ruin is a way to transformation.
   Rome, the eternal city, tells us that we should always be prepared for endless wave of transformation. —— Liz

   多睿智的人才會產生這樣的感悟，由historical site 到relationship。

- India:
+ You want to get to the castel, you gotta swim the moat.
   The meditation is within.
   You have to learn to select your thought the same way you select your clothe everyday. That's a power you can cultivate. You want to come here, you want to control your life, so back work on the mind, and that's the only thing you should be trying to control cause you can't master your thought, you are in trouble forever. —— Richard to Liz

   喜歡Liz和Richard相識不久後爭吵的這一段。Richard演出了心靈導師的魂。

+ Let it be.

   雖然只有短短三個單詞，能做到也就看透了。

+ Eventually everything goes away.
   It won't last forever. Nothing lasts. —— Liz to Stephen

   大家都知道的事實，但我們的強迫症只有在這一事實不斷被提起時才能得到緩解。

+ Handsome David...David不露齒笑的時候絕對是我的菜>    Cute and lovely Stephen...不過這類「小孩」一般都有點self-centered...

+ Send him some love and light everytime you think of him and then drop it. You know, if you could clear up all that space in your mind that you use to obsess over these guys and your failed marriage, you have a vacate (?) in your doorway. And you know what the universe do with that doorway, bomb, rush in, God, rush in, fill you with more love than you have dreamed of. Groceries (Liz' s nickname), I think you will have the capacity someday to love the whole world. —— Richard to Liz

+ Forgive yourself.
   Believe in love again. —— Richard to Liz

+ 神與汝共鳴，神與汝同在。

- Bali:
+ In order to stay happy, you must always know where you are every moment. + right here, perfect balance, right at meeting of heaven and earth, not too much... not too much selfish. Otherwise, life too crazy. You lose balance, you lose power.
   
   Sit in silence and smile
   Smile with face. Smile with mind. Even smile in liver. —— Ketut

+ When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping tutti (means 'everybody' in Italian). —— Liz

+ Balance is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself. —— Felipe

   Sometimes, to lose balance for love is a part of living balance in life. —— Ketut

+ The physics of the quest: If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitteral resentment, and set out on a truth seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are trully willing to regard anything that happens to you on the journey as a clue, and if you accept anyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are well prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some difficult realities of yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you. —— Liz