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East Coker (Four Quartets)

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This book by T.S. Eliot has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Elizabeth Gilbert. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-05-13 and the most recent from 2024-07-03. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

Every time it came up

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Elizabeth Gilbert and Jack Kornfield

“that has gotten me through some of the darkest times in my life; sometimes when people I know are grieving... I will give them that poem”
“a poem by TS Elliot called East Coker that has gotten me through some of the darkest times in my life some of those moments”— Elizabeth Gilbert

The guest here is Elizabeth Gilbert and Jack Kornfield: Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls. Jack Kornfield is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, one of the key figures who brought mindfulness practice to the West and author of 16 books. A 10th-anniversary super-combo episode pairing Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, intuition, and saying no with Jack Kornfield on meditation and compassion.

00:16:152024-07-03
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path — Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, and More

“that has gotten me through some of the darkest times in my life”
“a poem by TS Eliot called East Coker that has gotten me through some of the darkest times in my life”— Elizabeth Gilbert

The guest here is Elizabeth Gilbert: Number one New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and the novel City of Girls. A former award-winning magazine journalist whose career spans acclaimed fiction and nonfiction. Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, creativity as spiritual practice, trusting bodily intuition, and saying a clean, guilt-free no.

00:34:552020-05-13