“We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?”
―Joseph B. Wirthlin
What new discovery excites you?
A doorway could welcome you in out of the elements—or you could be welcomed in to the elements themselves.
Where would you like to feel comfortable that still feels unfamiliar to you?
“Poetry is more a threshold than a path.”
―Seamus Heaney
What door of insight has poetry opened for you?
A threshold can as easily be an invitation inside as a call to move out into adventure. One of the most important thresholds we cross is into the place that feels like home.
Where do you feel most at home?
“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”
―Abraham Verghese
