While I liked reading about all aspects of her adventure, I found that I especially soaked up the "Pray" chapters. I loved the way she described what was going on in her head and in her heart during the three months she spent meditating in an ashram in India. But I also acknowledge that the Pray chapters aren't for everyone. I have about 3 or 4 friends who admitted to getting so bored with them that they put the book on hiatus for a couple months. Ha. Diff'rent stokes.
So on that note, I thought this was an interesting article...
Julia Roberts converts to Hinduism
Last Updated: August 7, 2010 10:37am
- Julia Roberts.(L. Gallo/WENN.com)
Hollywood star Julia Roberts has converted to Hinduism after discovering all about the religion while filming new movie Eat Pray Love in India.
The Pretty Woman actress stars in the big screen adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's travel memoir, which sees her travel to India as part of a spiritual pilgrimage to learn about yoga, meditation and life in an ashram.
Roberts, whose parents are Baptist and Catholic, was so captivated by the ancient religion, she experienced her own spiritual awakening during the shoot and returned home as a Hindu.
She tells Elle magazine, "I'm definitely a practising Hindu."
The actress reveals she regularly goes to temple to "chant, pray and celebrate" and even takes her husband Danny Moder and their three kids, three-year-old Henry and five-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, with her.
Roberts has also adopted the belief in reincarnation and she hopes her next life will be a "quiet" one.
She says, "Golly, I've been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life. Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting."
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