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that was the moment I knew I had reached a critical point in my journey. I had arrived at “the line.” Of course, I had heard about the line and how others managed to cross it. But I had never been close enough to it to realize it’s not a line. It’s a ledge.

Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies

The freedoms associated with liminal spaces – club nights, abandoned buildings, forgotten shopping malls – often have a lot to do with the fact that these places, and the marks people left of themselves within them, will eventually disappear. There’s also something inherently egalitarian about them; a place that nobody owns or stakes an exclusive c... See more

Moses Hubbard • Disappearing Berlin

Navigating the space between stories puts us up for an immense challenge. We must seek the others to find hope and support when that which we love falls away, rediscover how to grieve for what we lose and praise what is lost, and learn how to remain alive in the face of death. To not resist being wholly taken by awe at the birth of spring, because ... See more

Niels Devisscher • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown

Liminal Space

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According to Wikipedia, liminality is “the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stages of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.”1 They’re in between. They’re neither here nor there.

David Kinnaman • The Intentional Father

When we recognize ourselves as a tributary of that greater upwelling, we allow things to be decided, spoken, and created not by us, but through us.

Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

As we enter into the realm of channel six, the last moment of recognition of any kind of self-consciousness is the realization that all of channels one through five were creations of mind. A liberated being is a being who is free to be in, but not attached to, any of the realities. It is a being who can enter into the ocean of channel six and yet r

Stephen Levine • Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness

They always imply a limited perspective and so are true only relatively and temporarily.

Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.