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“… try to live in the place you are visiting, even if it’s only for two weeks. Instead of staying in hotels and eating in restaurants… try to rent a flat and do some grocery-shopping. This will make you feel more like you’re experiencing the true tempo of a place, anyway. Be less of a tourist and more of a resident — that’s always cheaper.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, in an interview on www.bookreporter.com
Here are links to some travel sites for the places Gilbert visited:
Rome:
www.enjoyrome.com www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/italy/rome
India:
Bali:
Yoga explained:
Yoga is a philosophical system Hindus use to help them achieve wisdom through physical and meditative means.
Gilbert studied one type of yoga, Siddha Yoga, at the ashram Gurudev Siddha Peeth in Ganeshpuri, India. Her guru is Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, who studied under Swami Muktananda. Here is the link to the Web site of the ashram and Siddha yoga: http://www.siddhayoga.org
Chidvilasananda operates many Siddha yoga ashrams and meditation centers around the world, including more than 50 in the United States, some of which offer retreats. The centers are listed on the Siddha Yoga Web site.
To learn more about yoga and its place in the Hindu religion, click here http://library.thinkquest.org/28505/hinduism/yoga_.htm
A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner
Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen
In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.
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