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Out of that black hole of egolessness and no-discursive-thought, a color occurred, a symbol occurred, or a fraction of a symbol occurred.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
The ritual of circle draws the boundary between social time and sacred time. We connect.
Kay Lindahl • The Sacred Art of Listening: Forty Reflections for Cultivating a Spiritual Practice (The Art of Spiritual Living)
To look within and not find yourself as a self is the beginning of finding yourself as a presence (being).
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Even in the city, there are edgelands, those places where you don’t really exit. Airports, large hotels, when ‘we find ourselves inhabiting “in-between” spaces like hotels or apartments in far-away places that we don’t know well and where we won’t stay long.’
Three concepts are crucial to the work of van Gennep and Turner: liminality, communitas, and anti-structure. The three terms are closely related and are, in some contexts, interchangeable. Van Gennep introduced the term liminality (from “limen”, i.e., threshold) in The Rites of Passage (1909). In many cultures, elaborate rituals mark important
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Liminal Spaces in technology
When spiraling uncertainty disrupts and suspends established practices, existing ways of doing things are called into question. This creates an opening — a liminal time and space — interrupting usual practices and obligations in a way that fosters the possibility for creativity (Czarniawska and Mazza 2003). Scholars
Christianity calls the totality of divine powers pleroma, from the Greek pleˉreˉs, meaning “full.” Our work is to become full, or whole. During his six-year descent into the unconscious, Jung referred to the pleroma as a dark abyss full of nothingness and fullness.20 A paradoxical emptiness containing all opposites from which God manifests.
Joanna LaPrade • Forged in Darkness: The Many Paths of Personal Transformation
Before assuming an Identity, we are infinite, conscious energy playing in the finite world. After we accept an Identity—especially when it limits us—we become a finite energy struggling against time and conditions to restore wholeness in order to survive.