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I am reading this lovely book, a New York Times Bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert. The book is called “Eat Pray Love and its is a self-lived story about a woman’s spiritual journey. The book is divided into three parts, geographically: Elizabeth travels to Italy, India and Indonesia. This is a section when she just arrive to India, that I would like to share with you:

From pp. 119:

“When I was growing up, my family kept chickens. We always had about a dozen of them at any given time and whenever one of them died off – taken away by a hawk or fox or by some obscure chicken illness – my father would replace the lost hen. He’d drive to a nearby poultry farm and return with a new chicken in a sack. The thing is, you must be very careful when introducing a new chicken to the general flock. You can’t just toss it in there with the old chickens, or they will see it as an invader. What you must do instead is to slip the new bird into the chicken coop in the middle of the night while the others are asleep. Place her on a roost beside the flock and tiptoe away. In the morning, when the chickens wake up, they don’t notice the newcomer, thinking only “She must have been here all the time since I didn’t see her arrive”. The clincher of it is, awaking within this flock, the newcomer herself doesn’t even remember that she’s a newcomer, thinking only “I must have been here the whole time….”.

This is excactly how I arrive in India.”