Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg

Ep. 255 – Elizabeth Gilbert


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For episode 255, Sharon closes out the 2024 year in podcasts with an intimate conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert.

Liz is the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, the novels City of Girls and The Signature of All Things, and six other books of fiction and nonfiction — which altogether have sold over 25 million copies worldwide. She travels the globe giving talks and workshops that encourage people to lead brave, authentic, and creative lives, and her TED talk, “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” is among their most viewed talks ever. Liz is also the founder of both the Onward Book Club, and the Letters From Love project on Substack.

In this conversation, Liz and Sharon speak about:

  • How Liz came to her spiritual practice
  • What love said to Liz twenty years ago
  • Sharon’s experience doing Letters from Love 
  • Cultivating a ministry of presence
  • Liz’s twelve-step work with Love and Sex Addiction
  • Two-Way Prayer
  • The ability to receive
  • Love is not a UPS package
  • Earth School
  • What is my next right action?
  • The beginnings of resilience 
  • Why is not a spiritual question
  • Acknowledging the interconnection of things

The episode closes with Liz leading a Letter From Love practice. You can learn more about Liz’s work right here.

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