Posts Tagged ‘quest-magazine-2020-01|thresholds’

Think of the year
as a house:
door flung wide
in welcome,
threshold swept
and waiting,
a graced spaciousness
opening and offering itself
to you.

Perhaps you are familiar with the concept of The Hero’s Journey, made famous by Joseph Campbell.

Thresholds are sacred. Religions of all kinds, cultures of all times and places, have ways to mark the moments when we are on a threshold between one state of being and another.

Threshold is an interesting word. As a maintenance clerk I immediately thought of the thing at the bottom of a doorway.

In between, liminal, that space where we wait.
Between moments; events, results, action, no action.

There is a passage from the Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke, that has given me inspiration when confronted by the need to change.

There are predictable thresholds in our lives, when we move from one life-stage to another—when beloved children begin school, when we downsize from a house to an apartment, when we begin a new career or class.

There are threshold moments in each of our lives. Moments when the past that lies behind us seems present and real.

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