Comments on: Association of the Week: The Door

By: Marie-Claire

Marie-Claire — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:02:37 +0000

Para mi una puerta siempre ha simbolizado un cambio: de ambiente, de actitud, de vida…aun en mis sueños, cuando tengo pesadillas, busco una puerta para asi cambiar de sueño!

By: Miguel Angel

Miguel Angel — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:01:36 +0000

Yo soy el camino, la verdad y la vida……….nadie llega al padre si no es por mi. CRISTO.

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I am the way, truth and life ………. nobody comes to the father except by me. CHRIST.

By: Jim Spaulding

Jim Spaulding — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:56:12 +0000

Door: A bridge between worlds and also a world unto itself(A world between worlds where the often unnoticed alchemy of transition occurs.)

By: Mirela Baron

Mirela Baron — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:32:48 +0000

Thank you ,to remember me one of my favorits childhood story,dear Thelma!Ali baba and the 40 thieves!
The magic formula to open a Door,is a very fascinating proces!If somebody will get it ,it will afect further his whole life or development ;sometimes they will be breaks but will ever continue!

Love
Mirela(the woman in elevator)

By: Grace

Grace — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:52:40 +0000

That is right. Have a good rest of your weekend. I will be enjoying the sunshine here. :)

By: Joël

Joël — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:23:46 +0000

the way to more freedom

By: Marie-Christine

Marie-Christine — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:40:34 +0000

and sisters :)

By: Grace

Grace — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:41:28 +0000

Marie-Christine, :) Brothers.

By: Monika

Monika — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:17:42 +0000

Doors should be open or closed, but never bolted.

By: Aditya jaykumar

Aditya jaykumar — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:51:16 +0000

The door is an idea..a hope..that things might get better. It represents a transition from the realistic world to a more surreal world. A world with no wars, no violence, no hatred, no good, no bad. Where people dont know each other but still know them, where conversation between stranger lasts longer than a mere exchange of pleasantries..where there is no bad rich. No poor. The door represents a dream, which is beautiful yet tough to achieve because of which there is a fear that the door will always remain closed for fear of ruining that beautiful dream... (added by Mobile using Mippin)

By: Olga

Olga — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:50:09 +0000

Doors…. There are so many of them in our lives. Why do we need so many doors? Do we think that behind the door we try to open there will be a different reality and we will succefully fit into it? Or some doors will give us recognition that we crave sometimes so much? Or behind the Door we try to open is the deepest meaning of our lives. I think we need the doors because it is our human nature to look for answers, to search for meaning and fullfilment. What we sometimes don’t understand is that the doors are just many different moments, plesant and not pleasant. They don’t lead us to diffirent reality because reality is within us and if we want to change it we have to change ourselves.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:07:06 +0000

The door is the incredible power of choice. The free choice. The most powerful moment, repeated at every moment. The choice is between the unseen, the envisioned, and the known. The choice is the power of the moment, the power of the momentum, and the hope. The choice enables the next moment, confirms the power of our creativity, and verifies our values. It is through the choice that we travel, feel, and become. Through the choice, we grow or stop growing, we live or begin dying, we love or feel lost. The door leads to a space with another door.

By: Maru

Maru — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:47:18 +0000

La puerta es la invitacion a tomar la decision… entro? salgo? sigo? , a ejercer la libertad de abrir o cerrar, el pasar de aqui a ahi de ahi a aqui, movimiento, dejar lo conocido y lanzarte a la aventura de conocer algo que no conoces tan solo por vivir la experiencia y existir en un punto en donde ni siquiera alcanzo a ver.
Maravillosas las puertas!!!

By: Marie-Christine

Marie-Christine — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:03:17 +0000

Grace
Brothers

By: Vesna

Vesna — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:11:44 +0000

the door separate two different worlds. when we close one door, the another will open for us..
we choose when to open and go forward and when to close and staying behind the door.

By: Päivi

Päivi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:24:22 +0000

The door. I stand behind it and keep knocking. Even crying and banging it. Remembering the promise; Everyone who knocks, will get in.
But not me.
There must be an explonation-the guidence. My path will be different. I have learned so many valuable lessons about Gods godness in many forms. His precence is in everything, everyone. No matter what culture you represent.
Thats why this particular door was never truly opened to me. I had too many expectations. God had to teach me His true nature. That is love and respect for everything that has been created. Now I know better. Now I dont have to keep knocking. I am able to enter. I also am loved and wanted.
Not for the dogmas, but for the Great Spirits/Gods acceptance and love.

Love & Peace
Päivi

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:35:25 +0000

The front door to my little house came to mind after reading this article. I have lived in my house since August and have rarely opened or closed the front door. I use the back door to enter and exit my home. This house is a symbol of a major transformation in my life. I am not ready to open my front door just yet and am content with using the back door. I suppose I will start using the front door when I finally buy some furniture.

By: monica

monica — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:42:02 +0000

to me doors represent freedom. As the same Coelho has stated before, freedom is the right to choose, to make a decision. How many times have we been in front of doors, and it’s our decision to either open it and experience whatever is beyond that door, or just simply let it be, let it stand,…there,… closed.

By: Annabelle

Annabelle — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:50:37 +0000

Doors are mysterious entities…you never know what’s behind them. It’s scary, yet exciting. It is portrayed very well in movies, the cliche: main protagonist sees a door, hesitates; is either stopped before opening the door or opens the door to…
Doors are choices, chances, opportunities…whether good or bad. Once we’ve opened one, we can’t really forget what we see behind it, even if we close it back immediately.

I like the quote that says ‘your eyes are the doors to your soul’ or something like that…
You can avoid a look or be sucked into it…but once you’ve made eye contact it’s like you are face to face with a door and whether you want to open it (and communicate with the person) or keep it closed (and not communicate with the person), once you open the door, then you can just stay at the entrance (you become acquaintance or casual friends) or go right through (and become connected to that person)…thus leading to ‘knowing and having a relationship (romantic or not) with that person… am i making sense?! :-p
thanks for making us think…

By: Cristina

Cristina — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:07:50 +0000

What about alchemic doors?
they were built in houses of alchemysts in the 16th century.
Many of them are in Italy (Rome for example).
in Alchemy doors represent a passage from a level of the alchemyc path to the next one.
After reading the opinions in this blog I found out that alchemists were right.
Door is really a powerful symbol.
have a nice day

By: Brenda Tucker

Brenda Tucker — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:42:08 +0000

Some people may choose whether to open or close a door, but I don’t think that Jesus had the choice. Maybe he wasn’t saying it so grand. Maybe he was warning us.

By: Jennifer Wheat

Jennifer Wheat — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:27:03 +0000

Doors. Sometimes they represent the possibilities of beginnings and endings. They close as you drive away, isolating you from family and friends. They open like the arms of a loved one when you pull into the driveway. They close eternally at funerals; hopefully somewhere another door opens in eternity at that time. They inhabit “in between” spaces, not in one room or another, inside or outside.

By: Irina Black

Irina Black — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:41:56 +0000

Open or close?By a simple act of opening or closing the DOOR,we turne the impossible into possible.Potentiality becomes reality.Everyone becomes a creator,with every DOOR,which gets opened or closed.How to open the DOOR,which is yours?!It’s what Life is about..

By: Sty

Sty — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:48:25 +0000

The door:
“… you should now know that you are about to undergo a change…
You are leaving the former status and entering a new one”.
That’s what big doors usually say – in religious places, companies, offices and other places. And usually they work to raise/stress the profile/status of the defined space:
“make no mistake, in here you are not who you think you are out there…
here you should be humble, noble and respectful, you should abide by our ruled and leave your social identity outside the DOOR!”

For people I assume that a door is the instrument of a change. It indicates the limits of each persona that we all adopt in our multi-purpose everyday life. You walk past a door and you become a specialist in your field (at work). You walk past your house door and you become a family man. Or you walk past another door and you become a lover. Or you walk past a door you’ve never walked before and you become a helpless child!
People often play the game of the role/door!

So, a door indicates a change; something you leave behind, something you go to find.

Personally I find doors challenging in that way. I tend to explore/ the limits of my main persona. I am constantly trying to extend the limits of my self’s persona and try to make it work in all of these doors if possible!

By: Lilith

Lilith — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:39:15 +0000

I instantly thought of that one movie with Nicole Kidman, where all the houses were just drawn lines on the floor, and a door. Doors are sometimes more important than walls…

SAVITA VEGA you have beautiful way of putting thoughts and stories into words and sentences….

By: Mamuka

Mamuka — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:13:14 +0000

First of all enjoy progressive discussion – very educating atmosphere is created…

For me from my previous experience “Door” is an internship which enables you to connect University life to Professional life…

Apart from that, regarding the other associations and interpretations of the theme intoduced: Door is an example of globalization, development, expansion into different dimension, sphere, environment…

Famous rock band “The Doors” was named in order to enable its listeners to understand the idea behind their music…

By: -Crystal Ship-

-Crystal Ship- — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:45:48 +0000

Tres beau poeme.

By: Mau

Mau — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:57:21 +0000

La porte entrouverte

Je suis entrée par une porte entrouverte,
J’ai posé mon sac à l’intérieur de la pièce,
La tempête faisait rage dehors et j’étais au sec,
Aujourd’hui les nuages sont loin derrière,

Me voilà face à une porte de nouveau entrouverte,
Un sac à l’intérieur vide et des affaires plein l’étagère,
Un inconnu est entré et m’a emmenée sur la mer,
Derrière la porte le paysage était de nouveau clair,

Me voilà aujourd’hui, un sac vide par terre,
Des souvenirs et des bibelots plein les étagères,
Derrière la porte, souffle une brise légère,
Des sons lointains, des cloches et le tintement de la mer,

Je suis debout devant la porte entrouverte,
Je l’ai poussé pour regarder ce qu’il y avait derrière,
Deux chemins complètement opposés diffèrent,
L’un revient sur mes pas et l’autre retourne en arrière,

Devant la porte, je me gratte la tête,
Dans la porte, je me cogne la tête,
Derrière la porte, j’ai chaud mais je regarde en arrière,
Derrière la porte, j’ai froid mais je bouge sans arrêt,

Alors que faire ?
Fermer la porte et oublier ce qu’il y a derrière ?
Passer la porte et attraper mon sac par terre ?
Alors que faire ?

Les signes m’ont fait retrouver l’inconnu de la mer,
Les signes ont applaudi ces 15 ans de quête,
Les signes aujourd’hui se sont tus et me laissent
Là, au seuil de la porte de nouveau entrouverte…

By: Vio

Vio — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:08:45 +0000

To me there are 2 perspectives of looking at Door.

From the inside:
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When I was a child, I associate a closed door with safety. When I was home alone, I always locked the door. If I double-locked it, I feel even safer. When I have to leave home, opening the door would mean that the unknowns await (both good and bad).

Even till now, a closed door from the inside still means security. And it is even more, it’s personal space and privacy. But at times, it also means being trapped or loneliness.

But more often than not, you always have the choice to open your door or closed it if you are from the inside.

From the outside:
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This is more tricky in the sense that a lot of the doors (both literally and figuratively) remain a mystery till today. This is because I am not given the opportunity to open them. But after a while, I realized that when a door is closed, there is no point in forcing it open. There is always reason why some doors are closed for me, this will lead me to those doors that are opened and in fact better suited for me.
God knows what’s best for his child and being able to follow the sign is the greatest of all.

…Vio

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:09:23 +0000

Doors to me are like the days that pass by. As a new day begin, we open the door called today to new opportunities. “What is in store for us?” is the question that fills our minds every time we open the door of today. Then when the day ends, we exit at the other end and get ourselves ready to open another door named tomorrow.