OPENING DOORS

We live our lives in an inescapable and essential alternating movement between the registering of impression and flights into our own imagination.

The scales never stand still in perfect balance, but rise and fall constantly.

We need both: the door opened, but also closed.

If it shut, we want to open it; if it stands open, then after a while we are overpowered and want to close it again. Again and again we seek out the protection of a closed, narrowly limited space which will filter out the harshness of the outside world.

But we are not foetuses in the womb now; soon we feel suffocated in our caves, and push our way out.

We are summoned to freedom from the moment of our birth.

Again and again we must struggle to translate this knowledge into action within everyday life, trying to keep the scale in balance.

Opening doors to new vistas always looking forward forward and forward....