Elizabeth Gilbert reflects on spiritual enlightenment & her own spiritual journey in this Big Think video. She recognizes the privilege she had to be able to go on an actual journey. But, she says, spiritual self-discovery doesn’t have to happen through travel, and it is not confined to the rich who are able to afford such a trip. In our own ways, and through our own means, she says, we can use meditation, contemplation and self-transformation as tools. Questions of divinity are everywhere, she says, and these transformations can happen anywhere: in traffic jams, at the office, even in refugee camps.
Elizabeth Gilbert is an author, best known for her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce. The book has since been made into a film starring Julia Roberts.
