This document consists of 37 reflections on doors from various sources. Some key themes that emerge are doors representing new beginnings and opportunities, as well as change, choices, and possibilities in life. Doors can lead to both pleasure and pain. They are a symbol of both entering new phases and closing others. Overall, the reflections portray doors as metaphors for the transitions and unknowns that lie ahead in life.

1. 4 October 2015 Personal reflection 1

2. 4 October 2015 Personal reflection 2

4. DOORS OPEN
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 4

5. Doors
Lead to
Home
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 5

6. We enter
life
through
the doors
of birth
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 6

7. There is always
one moment in
childhood when
the door opens
and lets the
future in.
Graham
Greene
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 7

8. We go
through
doors for
new starts
in life
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 8

9. The closing of a
door can bring
blessed privacy and
comfort - the
opening, terror.
Conversely, the
closing of a door
can be a sad and
final thing - the
opening a
wonderfully joyous
moment.
Andy Rooney
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 9

10. DOORS CLOSE
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 10

11. Men shut
their doors
against a
setting sun.
William
Shakespeare
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 11

12. Door Keep In
Doors can
keep the
dangerous
in
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 12

13. Doors
Keep
Out
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 13

14. We
close
the
door on
life4 October 2015 Personal reflection 14

15. Doors are
Entrances
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 15

16. The punctuation
of anniversaries is
terrible, like the
closing of doors,
one after another
between you and
what you want to
hold on to.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 16

17. Don't spend
time beating
on a wall,
hoping to
transform it
into a door.
Coco Chanel
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 17

18. Sometimes we
stare so long at a
door that is
closing that we
see too late the
one that is open
Alexander Graham
Bell
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 18

19. DOORS ARE
POSSIBILITIES
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 19

20. There comes a
time when we
must leave
security and walk
through that door
of possibilities.
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 20

21. Doors
can take
you
places
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 21

22. Not knowing
when the
dawn will
come I open
every door
Emily Dickinson
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 22

23. Doors are
magical and
mystical
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 23

24. “There are things
known and there
are things
unknown, and in
between are the
doors of
perception” –
Aldous Huxley
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 24

25. Sad will be the day
for any man when he
becomes contented
with the thoughts he
is thinking and the
deeds he is doing -
where there is not
forever beating at the
doors of his soul some
great desire to do
something larger;
which he knows he
was meant and made
to do.
Phillips Brooks
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 25

26. Doors can
lead to
pleasure
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 26

27. Doors can
lead to
pain
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 27

28. There are
things known
and things
unknown and
in between
are the
doors.
Jim Morrison
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 28

29. DOORS ARE
CHANGE
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 29

30. Doors
offer
change
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 30

31. To pass
through a
door
To enter or
exit
To spy
through a
peephole
Is to face
Possibilities
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 31
To pass through
the door
To enter or exit
To accept
possibilities
Is to accept
change
Be afraid
But go
.

32. Doors may
offer choices
Choice are
many
Choices are
forever
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 32

33. I feel very
adventurous.
There are so many
doors to be
opened, and I'm
not afraid to look
behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 33

34. Janus am I; oldest
of potentates;
Forward I look, and
backwards, and
below
I count, as god of
avenues and gates,
The lives that
through my portal
come and go.
After Longfellow
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 34

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36. WHERE
WILL
YOUR
DOORS
LEAD
YOU
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 36

37. REFLECTIONS ON DOORS
MUSIC—ROSSINI “THE THIEVING
MAGPIE”
Ronald Speener
4 October 2015 Personal reflection 37