Until part II (India), I'd been a bit disappointed in the inanity of her tale in Italy centering on food. Food is not a passion for me. However I do admit I've rather enjoyed the experience of reading of her gastronomic adventures as I am myself sitting in the Italian Cafe Amici a couple of doors down from my apartment building. To hear the Italian being spoken in the cafe and partaking of the food as I read brings the story to life for me.
I like this quote she pulls of St. Augustine as she is speaking of the yogic path:
"Our whole business therefore in this life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
Also from the book:
The classical Indian sages wrote that there are three factors which indicate whether a soul has been blessed with the highest and most auspicious luck in the universe:
- To have been born a human being capable of conscious inquiry.
- To have been born with-or to have developed- a yearning to understand the nature of the universe.
- To have found a living spiritual master.
For the most part I am in agreement with her treatise on yoga and spirituality though I have doubts about her emphasis on meeting a living guru to catalyze one's spiritual awakening by mantravirya: "The potency of the enlightened consciousness."
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