“Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.” WorldNeedsEndsEyeLastsOrderSocialGreaterJourneyCreationPietySocial Order Author:Rowan Williams
“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.” HumansWellsIdeasEndsSocialCommonDemocracyJourneyExpressionSourceDrinkEssentialsEthicsCrowdsHeatHuman ExperienceIdentificationDraught Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.” DoeMovingCertainSocialCausesLevelsClassJourneyDegreesDistanceScalesEnormousColourUnexpectedTransportFlavour Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.” MenTryingPlayCharacterBigsWantedSpiritualPoliticalSocialBoysJourneyDiscovery Author:Orlando Bloom
“I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.” WorldNeedsFeelsLooksKindDifferentRealStoriesBigsMightForceSocialSuccessfulJourneyEmotionalHappeningsInjusticeIntimacyFormulasRelevantOperaDifferent TimesSocial Injustice Author:Jake Heggie
“My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.” WayWritingYearsLongBookEndsSometimesTodaySocialJourneyMediaPatientCaughtCarefulSocial MediaLikesPostsCommentBe CarefulCaught UpBe PatientBlogsWriting A BookBloggingPayoffLong JourneyReinforcement Author:Matt de la Pena
“In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self.” RealSelfOrderFatherSocialSinJourneyClaimsReal LifePsychologicalMinoritiesPatriarchySymbolicSins Of The Father Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.” PeopleKnowsShouldMindHeartImportantReasonLastsSpiritualPoliticalSocialGrowthPracticePathIssuesJourneyYogaSittingTransformationFundamentalsPersonal GrowthRecoveryDriversMechanicHeart And MindSpiritual PathSpiritual PracticePolitical Issues Author:Marianne Williamson
“In this day and age, especially with all the media and television, social media, and the Internet, we are constantly being compared and comparing ourselves to others' lives and journeys. Keep your eyes on your own road.” EyeAgeSocialJourneyMediaTelevisionInternetSocial MediaCompareThis Day Author:Sanaa Lathan
“For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.” ThinkingWorldHouseSocialWalksJourneyPrideReaderWalkingPrejudiceIndependenceWanderSpheresHikingSolitaryJaneTrekkingStrollingHeroinesSaunteringAustenDarcy Author:Rebecca Solnit