The Door That Opened Without Leading Anywhere
Passage to Inner Worlds
In a monastery garden stood a doorframe unattached to any building. When opened, nothing changed — no new room, no new landscape. Yet people who stepped through it returned visibly transformed: calmer, wiser, more aware. The monks smiled knowingly. “The door doesn’t lead outward,” they said. “It leads inward. Each person steps into the place they’ve avoided most — themselves.”
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