Our thinking mind tends to imprison us with rigid thought patterns, models and repetitious rituals.  We never know when we are stuck or unthinkingly attached to a certain idea or way of thinking until we start to unstick ourselves.  We only know we've been stuck in a certain intellectual place when we pass beyond it.

The threshold is an epiphany:  a moment of sudden intuitive understanding; a momentary flash of insight; a feeling of knowing.  As we approach the threshold of knowing, we tend to hold back.  We hesitate, unsure of ourselves, wanting not to give up the feeling of security we got from the previous ideas of who we thought we were.  If we come with the certainty that we already know, and that what we have is enough, then though we receive glimpses of truth through our experiences, we will not accept, not experience, not feel the crossing's inspirational, emotional transmissions.  Before we can cross the threshold of knowing we must not only yearn to receive, we must also be ready to receive, to be willing to break attachments to former concepts.  Once you've crossed you can't return to what you thought you were before.

When our journey takes us to the threshold of knowing, it is no longer sufficient just to talk about it and read about it; now we must somehow actively become it, to live it.  What we're all seeking has very little to do with time and space; it has very little to do with our deteriorating bodies, or with individual personalities.  To receive the essence of all-that-is requires much more than the analytical mind.

It requires a desire in us, a readiness to use this birth to become who in truth, in spirit, we are.  It requires the desire that we become free of the kinds of materialistic clinging and attachment that keep distorting and narrowing our vision.  It requires that we come to know actively and experientially what we're doing here, what our function is here on Earth.

Upon crossing the threshold of expanding insight, comprehension, perceptivity, and understanding, we come to want more than the reality of forms experienced through our senses and our thinking minds.  We start tuning into the harmony of the Universe and its flow.  We begin setting aside our sense of separateness and actively become part of the total process in the same way as a tree or a brook is actively part of process, a oneness with it all.

What we're now searching for is who is looking, who is listening.  We begin to cultivate the quietness in ourselves where we don't get lost in words.  We develop a readiness to sit silently and quiet our minds.  The predicament is that the transmission that we in truth yearn to receive is not one the rational mind can fully grasp and appreciate.  All the rational mind can do is get to the point where it is pointing.  To achieve that which we seek requires going beyond knowing and to becoming it.  Knowledge can only be known by transforming ourselves into the knowledge itself through the activity of life.