Every time I paint a portal “door,” even commissioned pieces, it involves a lot of internal processing and Dreamwork. This Lady Justice Portal is no different in that regard. Both the person I’m creating it for and I have been deeply focused and receiving all sorts of guidance.
Today, I received a sense that true Justice looks at all the angles, considers all the information on all different levels, including history. I suddenly got an “instruction” to write up all the quotes from my prior portals, in order, and post them on the blog. “Read the larger message opening through these doors.”
Keep in mind, I’ve painted these portals across more than a decade of linear time. Most came through dreams, intuition and visions, sometimes with years between each portal. Even so, the quotes read like some kind of cosmic instruction manual, building on the prior message even if I didn’t realize it at the time. It’s also curious to find all these sky and star references, because for many years, I had no idea I was encoding so much astrology into the doors.
Here are the quotes, in order:
1. “There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.” –Jim Morrison
2. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell
3. “Wherever you are is the entry point.” – Kabir
4. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity …” – Kahlil Gibran
5. “The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue.” – Ryan Stiles
6. “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” -Graham Greene
7. “Between God and the soul, there is no between.” – Julian of Norwich
8. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
9. “Remember, my friend, you must go down the road to know, it is as above and so below.” (Shawn Blackwolf)
10. “There are two mistakes one can make on the road to truth … not going all the way and not starting.”–Buddha
11. “A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
12. “You’ll see the sky is open now.” – Donna DeLory
13. “Let my heart open the door to your heart as wide as the world.” (Krishna Das)
14. “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” – Kahlil Gibran
15. The entire 18 Armanen Rune sequence.
16. “Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
17. “Love says, ‘There is a way. I have traveled it thousands of times.'” – Rumi
18. “Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.” Ann Voskamp
19. “Take a small step in the direction of a dream, and watch the synchronous doors flying open.” – Julia Cameron
20. “Be an opener of doors.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “If you open the door of wisdom, all other doors will be opened.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
22. (in process now) “The universe and the light of the stars come through me.” – Rumi
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