East Coker (Four Quartets)

This book by T.S. Eliot has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Elizabeth Gilbert. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, exercise & strength, meditation & mindfulness, psychedelics, trauma & ptsd. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from May 2020 and the most recent from Jul 2024. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “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”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “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”
  Elizabeth Gilbert · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202400:16:15

  Said during "Elizabeth Gilbert and Jack Kornfield". The episode features 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.

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

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “that has gotten me through some of the darkest times in my life”
  Elizabeth Gilbert · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 202000:34:55

  Said during "Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path, Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, and More". The episode features 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.