thresholds
That means undergoing initiations at various thresholds in our lives where we are forced to dismantle the persona we’ve worked so hard to construct—to look in the shadows lurking behind our bright performances to see what is pulling our strings so we can reclaim that energy for new endeavours.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
So we are on the topic of horizons and thresholds, limits and walls, and their appropriately hidden transversals (vertere, from the root *wer-, “to turn, bend”). From this place, we understand liminality to be that initiatory threshold where the limits of our knowing meets the horizon of our being.
Jeremy D Johnson • "Three Theses on Liminality"
Per Frank Chen:
The word “threshold” represents that moment of stepping through a doorway, not quite in either room, that captures the experience of being in-between identities or life paths. It’s both a boundary and an invitation, a place of vulnerability where we can start to leave behind the security of what we know while also accepting the... See more