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Door Tattoo Meaning

Choice, threshold, transition, and the opening between worlds.

The Door is the threshold of choice — the opening between one room and the next, one state and another, the moment of passing through from what was into what will be. To carry the Door is to carry choice, threshold, transition, and the opening between worlds — the door that may be opened or closed, entered or refused, the passage from one life to another, the decision to cross or to stay.

The Door is the threshold — the boundary and the opening between one world and another. To pass through a door is to leave one space and enter another: inside to outside, the known room to the unknown beyond, one state of being to the next. The door marks the line between two realms and the single point at which one may cross from one into the other. It is at once a boundary that separates and an opening that joins — the threshold where one world ends and another begins.

This makes the door the emblem of the threshold between worlds — the passage from one state, one life, one chapter to another. It carries the meaning of every great transition: the crossing from the old life to the new, from one phase to the next, from what we have known into what lies beyond. To stand in a doorway is to stand on the threshold between two worlds, at the very point of passage. To carry the door is to carry this threshold — the opening between worlds, the passage from one state of being into another. The door is the threshold between worlds — the opening and boundary where one world ends and another begins. The universal door is the threshold between worlds — the threshold, the boundary and opening between one world and another; to pass through a door to leave one space and enter another (inside to outside, the known room to the unknown beyond, one state of being to the next), the door marking the line between two realms and the single point at which one may cross from one into the other, at once a boundary that separates and an opening that joins — the emblem of the threshold between worlds, the passage from one state, one life, one chapter to another, carrying the meaning of every great transition (the crossing from the old life to the new, from one phase to the next, from what we have known into what lies beyond), to stand in a doorway to stand on the threshold between two worlds at the very point of passage.

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