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The West to me is where the landscape is,
Bearings
You are my dear compass,
who knows no way but true,
so when I'm lost and drifting,
I find myself in you.
Yet when I ask you, fearful,
if I should set you free,
imagine my surprise to hear
you take your north from me.
The wind's in the east ... I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
Forward, towards the danger!
North was only a direction indicated by a compass
if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek, There is the utter East.
Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.
Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east.
The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.
Clockwise is sunwise - as opposed to 'widdershins', which witches use.
It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.
The four cardinal points are three: South and North.
The boundaries of our country, sir? Why sir, on the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the east we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the Equinoxes, and on the west by the Day of Judgement.
For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.
The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.
10 - Onward & Downward
I could have gone either north or south but decided to strike off north because it was my favorite direction.
Ever up and onward.
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.
The westward road seems easiest. Therefore it must be shunned.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see."
"Oh. You're a bit east.
Onward and upward.
OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!
Anywhere, provided it be forward
farther still farther into the night.
Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun
But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.
East Africa. Had Lance been deliberately misleading when he said West instead of East? Miss
It was a day of winter east wind, and I had now for some time entered into that dreary fellowship with the winds and their changes, so little known, so incomprehensible by the healthy. The north and east owned a terrific influence, making all pain more poignant, all sorrow sadder.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
east was east and west was west and never the twain shall meet, and
O ineluctable superiority of northernness
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.
The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western heritage - the triumph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man.
West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner
West, North, and South the children of Men spread and wandered, and their joy was the joy of the morning before the dew is dry, when every leaf is green.
If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.
Somewhere nere Ogallala, about six hours into that majestic, maddening prairie, I realize that half an hour has passed since I've seen a vehicle in either direction.
Oh, I think, as I finally see a pair of headlights draw nigh in the eastbound lane, so this must be where the West begins.
Always forwards, never backwards.
on the west, the Atlantic Ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the north; the Euphrates on the east; and towards the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa. ^4
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
When the crowd is going south, your inner mind might tell you that your goal lies to the north. Then go the unpopular way; go north.
What lies north of the North Pole?
Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
And I say north is where I want it to be!
A Zen master once said, "To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile." This is vital freedom. We should acquire this kind of perfect freedom.
The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.
115The East and the West belong to God: wherever you turn, there is His Face.b God is all pervading and all knowing.
It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.
south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. You could just barely see through it, enough to make
The east is not for me
the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
When you find your direction, check to make sure that it is the right one.
Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.
Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest?
'Tis that every mother's son
Travails with a skeleton.
Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;
Bring the eternal seed to light,
And morn is all the same as night.
They say your attitude determines your latitude ...
Latitudes and Departures
The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
You're my true north. No compass would point me in any other direction but to you.
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
Your direction is a result of your perception.
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.
toward the Mount.4
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
My eccentricity became direction.
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.
He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.
The star rises from the east. Watch out!
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.
I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
To found a new home in the western continent beyond the ocean, a new fatherland free from tyranny . . . guided by firm convictions and upright motives, not by the whim of the moment.
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.
South to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington. Today,
Where shall I go? To the left where nothing is right? Or to the right where nothing is left?
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
The true direction of her heart: that is to say, inwards, to the reality of dreams.
For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was the union of all times.
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.
Nature endlessly in every direction
inward to your body and outward into space.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
Turn left at Greenland....
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
A darkness lies behind us, and we have turned our backs upon it, and we do not desire to return thither even in thought. Westwards our hearts have been turned, and we believe that there we shall find Light.
Point north and vok voort.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That's how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you're not even thinking. Like they've been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.
To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.