“All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!” NightStarsMorningSunProgressJourneyMoonAll ThingsWesternRoundsEastBarsAfternoonComes And GoesNoon Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.” DoneHalfWonderJourneyRocksBibleEastGentleBeast Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.” WritingAmericaMy OwnJourneyDetailsEastIntimateEncountersRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.” ShouldFirstsEndsFeelingsStepsSunJourneyTerribleMoonWestEastConfusionFirst StepsHopelessness Book:John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth Source: John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth
“Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.” ThinkingTwoSelfSpiritualPracticeMeditationJourneyEgoWestEastProductiveSpiritual PracticeDissolutionDichotomyDeep Spiritual Author:Karan Bajaj
“Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.” PeopleYearsIdeasWantedReadingFourImagineJourneyEuropeIndiaMeetingsEastFour YearsExchangingExchanging Ideas Author:Shel Silverstein
“East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.” ReasonDoneMomentsGoalWhiteSunImpossibleJourneyLandFiguresBearsTerribleMoonSightLaysWestStrangerEastI RealizedSilverBellsUnfathomableSleighsMake Things RightSilver Bells Author:Edith Pattou