Up: [[The In-Between Times]] > [!Orbit] Saul Bellow > Perhaps, being lost, one should get loster. > [!Orbit] [[Tama Kieves]] in *This Time I Dance* > Consciously let go of what tires you. And what inspires you will take its place. (p. 57) > [!Orbit] [[Rumi]] > Forget safety. > Live where you fear to live. > Destroy your reputation. > Be notorious. > [!Orbit] [[William Bridges]] in *The Way of Transition* > …the way of transition simply involves following your path, letting go when it is time, being open to the neutral zone when that is what you need to do, and embracing the new form when it emerges from the shadows at the edge of the present. (p. 177) > [!Orbit] Toni Morrison > The borders are our natural sites of creation… the places where we invent, transgress, and create. > [!Orbit] [[William Bridges]] in *The Way of Transition* > When we find ourselves in transition, life is telling us that it is time to let go of what we have been holding on to. (p. 45) > [!Orbit] [[Tama Kieves]] in weekly fortune cookie email, March 6, 2018 > Everybody wants to rush through transition like it’s a bad root canal. But transition is a threshold. It’s a sacred appointment — the crossing from one world to another. There are promises, insights, revelations, and messages during this time. You will not escape yourself here. You will not escape your deepest questions. This is a blessing. > [!Orbit] Bharati Mukheriee > It’s not a smooth process, the remaking of oneself. > [!Orbit] [[William Blake]] > In the universe, there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors. > [!Orbit] Alan Lightman in *A Sense of the Mysterious* > …stand right at the edge between known and unknown and gaze into that cavern and be exhilarated rather than frightened. (p. 42) > [!Orbit] Julia Cameron in *Walking in this World: The Practical Art of Creativity* > Inner malcontent actually triggers outer change — if we are willing to listen to our malcontent with an open mind and listen to what will feel like a wave of irrational promptings. Those oddball, harebrained, nonlinear, and screwball itches, hunches, and urges are the path through the briar patch. Follow your strange creative cravings and you will be led into change a step at a time. I cannot prove this to you, nor would I. This is an experiment you must do for yourself and with yourself. You will never trust an unseen and benevolent partnering from higher realms unless you experience it for yourself and by yourself. (p. 181) > [!Orbit] Dante Alighieri in *The Divine Comedy* > When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, > I found myself within a shadowed forest, > for I had lost the path that does not stray. (Inferno canto 1, 1-3) > [!Orbit] Viktor Frankl in *Man’s Search for Meaning* > Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. > [!orbit] Ann Patchett > There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself. > [!orbit] Carolyn Heilbrun in *Women’s Lives: The view from the threshold* > (liminality is) being poised upon uncertain ground, to be leaving one condition or country or self and entering upon another. But the most salient sign of liminality is its unsteadiness, its lack of clarity about exactly where one belongs and what one should be doing, or wants to be doing.