Because truth is the force that guides us to where we need to be in life, but love is the power that heals us once we arrive there.”īelow that is a picture of Gilbert and Elias together, smiling. Elizabeth Gilberts memoir of her search for post-divorce happiness by eating, meditating and romancing her way around the world has sold millions of copies and is to be made into a film. “We will resonate with it, and we will thank you for it.

“Whatever extra love you might be carrying around in your hearts right now, could you direct some this way?” she wrote. Gilbert ended her post by asking her readers for love. It’s for the sake of our own integrity, but it’s also intended to make our lives simpler.” “I need to live my life in truth and transparency, even more than I need privacy, or good publicity, or prudence, or other people’s approval or understanding, or just about anything else,” she wrote.”So that is why Rayya and I have decided together to speak up publicly now - both about her cancer and about our love for each other. After her divorce from her first husband, Michael.

The 46-year-old writer detailed the beginning of their love story in her 2006 memoir. In her Facebook post, Gilbert explained why she chose to go public with the news of her relationship with Elias. Elizabeth Gilbert on Octoin New York City. “I know it sounds like a love story and it totally is,”she said. The two were profiled last year by the Sydney Morning Herald, which described them as”clasping hands, finishing each other’s sentences, Elias absentmindedly fixing Gilbert’s hair” and displaying “a kind of intimacy only found in female friendships and, even then, not always.”Įlias told the newspaper that her friends would often refer to Gilbert as her wife. Gilbert and Elias have been friends for more than 15 years.

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