We inherit in our bodies and nervous systems the remnant of the earliest vertebrates as well as the fruits of mammalian evolution. And we also contain as latency the substance of what we will yet become.*
Jean Houston

So your threshold is the point at which you’re going into a new and challenging territory that you’ve never seen before, and there’s no turning back.
Robert Dilts

In this moment,
We contain our past and present
and also our future,
Different, larger, richer than
simply repeating the past and
replicating the present.

There’s a psalm that proffers:
He raises the poor from the dust,
and lifts the needy from the ash heap^ –
It’s as though our lives are coming
to their close prematurely,
Being rebsorbed by the ground
from which we have emerged:
“earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”

This is often the result of reducing our
environments, held within
smaller worlds, but
there’s always a new environment, another
threshold to cross, and this is how we come upon
a further state of personal evolution to explore.

*Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life;
**Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts’ A Hero’s Journey;
^Psalm 113:7.