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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end
of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
We believe that this earthbound seeking thing we do is the big spiritual adventure, but this is just a preamble, like the journey to the shaman; it’s not nothing, but it’s not the main event. That distant pinnacle we work so hard to reach turns out not to be a holy totem or a sacred lingam, but a launch tower, and getting there is just the first leg of a much longer journey.
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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
T.S. Eliot was a major 20th-century poet, playwright, and literary critic. Born American but later British, he revolutionized modern poetry with works like “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and is known for his complex, allusive style and exploration of spiritual and cultural themes.
