Quotes About Threshold

he passed, as he often passed, a mysterious threshold. He began to feel less like he was delivering a speech and more like a speech was delivering him, that the rhythm and intonation of his presentation were beginning to dictate its content, that he no longer had to organize his arguments so much as let them flow through him.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the bestî

It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

Devo deixar minha alma do lado de fora antes de entrar?

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Fallen angels could not enter sanctuaries of God. The moment they crossed the threshold, the house of worship would go up in flames, incinerating every mortal inside.

By being human, I was actually being inhumane. My hesitation to embrace my new abilities was causing needless suffering. Once you cross that moral threshold—once you decide to kill a man who hasn't threatened or wronged you—better to do it quickly, or whatever moral high ground you're standing on gets washed away by their blood.

The spirit ascends with light as passion consumes with fury; every pulse beholds inspiration when brought to the threshold of dance

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.

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Mostly, however, I am a mystic. A mystic is someone who understands, contacts, and maps the invisible roads inside of us. Since I was a child, I've always felt as comfortable navigating these inner highways as I have moving on the external plane of existence. It seems that I show up in people's lives when they're ready to cross a threshold into more consciousness, healing, and awakening.

Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.

Any one moment could be like this, I thought. A continental divide.

Across many domains of psychology, one finds that X increases Y to a point, and then it decreases Y....There is no such thing as an unmitigated good. All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

Once a society's level of per capita wealth crosses a threshold from poverty to adequate subsistence, further increases in national wealth have almost no effect on happiness.

the political scientist James Payne suggests that ancient peoples put a low value on other people's lives because pain and death were so common in their own. This set a low threshold for any practice that had a chance of bringing them an advantage, even if the price was the lives of others.

Weber's Law: for an increase in intensity to be noticeable, it must be a constant proportion of the existing intensity.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

The rest of them, however, are going to require a bit more persuading, in the form of running additional loops that address one of the following three areas: Increasing their level of certainty for one or more of the Three Tens Lowering their action threshold Increasing their pain threshold

Practically speaking, the implications of this are staggering. After all, if you can lower a person's action threshold, then you can turn some of the toughest buyers into easy buyers—which is something that we do with great effect in the latter stages of the sale, and that sets up the possibility of being able to close anyone who is closeable.