BETWEEN DOORS - LIFE CRISIS, SEARCH FOR MEANING AND NEW BEGINNINGS
When nothing fits anymore and you begin to move forward again
A hand places a key into a lock. The door is heavy. And yet it opens. Light falls in. No great moment. No dramatic breakthrough. Just a first step forward.
Perhaps that is exactly what this book is about.
Sometimes life keeps moving while something inside us has already stopped following. We function, carry responsibility and continue doing what needs to be done. From the outside, much may still look perfectly stable. And yet a quiet feeling remains: something is no longer right.
BETWEEN DOORS is about this moment between what was and what has not yet begun. Not the collapse. Not the triumphant new beginning. The space in between, when you sense that something is changing but have no idea where it will lead.
Which is inconvenient, because life rarely provides a sign saying NEXT DOOR THIS WAY.
This is not a classic self-help book. There are no quick fixes, motivational slogans or methods for functioning more efficiently. Instead, it asks something quieter: What happens when you begin to see yourself again?
BETWEEN DOORS is for people who sense that their old life no longer quite fits, while the new one has not yet taken shape.
It explores life crises and the search for meaning, responsibility and inner emptiness, turning points and new beginnings – and why change often starts long before anything becomes visible from the outside.
This book offers no step-by-step programme and no promise that everything will suddenly become clear. That would certainly make things easier.
Instead, it looks at the quieter work of finding direction again: taking your own perception seriously, recognising what no longer belongs in your life and allowing a new direction to emerge without forcing it.
Because perhaps the important moment is not when your entire life changes overnight. Perhaps it is when you stop living past yourself.
And sometimes opening the next door begins with nothing more dramatic than finally noticing that you have been holding the key all along.
Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger writes from lived experience – from setbacks, detours, new beginnings and encounters that never needed to be invented. His texts begin where real life leaves its mark.
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