#3 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006

One of my favorite parts of this book so far is one of her dreams in India. She dreams that she is on a beach with her Guru's Guru (her Grand-Guru?) whom she refers to as Swamiji is telling her to stop the tide. After several failed attempts at doing so Swamiji laughs at her and says, "Tell me, if you would be so kind- how exactly were you planning on stopping that?"

I think that this dream really brought out her insecurities about having to tame her raging mind during Yoga sessions, but I came away with my own and an entirely different message. Somethings you cannot change. Somethings you cannot fix. When we come across these things in life we just need to take a breath and then exhale all of our OCD away. I know there are times when I get so obsessed with my writing that I will get stuck on one word. I will stare endlessly at that taunting, blinking cursor tearing my hair out. I almost need someone to remind me that it is just a tiny little word, and I can worry about it later. Then I can shake off my obsession and return to what I enjoy doing.

Sometimes life is going to be like that puzzle that has had its missing pieces replaced by ones that do not fit. You are going to have to learn to scatter those puzzle pieces we call life around until they become a beautiful mosaic.