liminal, limbo
The Chinese symbol for crisis 危机 is composed of two elements: one signifies danger and the other opportunity.
“You have to be willing to be nobody to have a chance to be who you want to be.”
Anu Atluru • Status Limbo | Theory No. 27
“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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The right journey is the ultimate destination. – The most prolific and beneficial experience in life is not in actually achieving something you want, but in seeking it. It’s the journey towards an endless horizon that matters—goals and dreams that move forward with you as you chase them. It’s all about meaningful pursuits—the “moving”—and wh
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Truly, the most important reason for moving from one place to another is to see what’s in between.
What happens in liminal spaces? Doubt, discomfort, unfamiliarity, anxiety. But also growth, change, and discovery. Liminal spaces offer all of the ingredients for creativity.
Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity
“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”
Trish Deseine
Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity that emerges in the middle of a fundamental transition. Liminality is the “in-between”, where the space and the participants no longer hold their past status, but have not yet fully transformed to their post-transition self.
Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity
What does it mean to be a hero in the liminal? Perhaps not what it means to be a hero in the regular world. It may be that there is an inversion at play — that to survive the underworld, we need to embody the opposing qualities of our old culture. Humility over control. Surrender and acceptance over striving and efforting. This does not mean becomi... See more
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
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