Crossing the Threshold
Crossing the Threshold is the defining moment in which the hero accepts the Call and acts---stepping out into the unknown and embraces the adventure that awaits.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo and Sam leave the friendly confines of the Shire, in The Hunger Games Katniss volunteers as tribute to save her little sister. In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry chooses Hogwarts over the Dursleys and escapes. And in Divergent, Beatrice Prior leaves her parents and the known world of Abnegation by choosing the Dauntless faction.
To choose this new world, and to act, the hero must practice the virtue of Courage. Without Courage, the call will remain unanswered, and the journey will stall.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo and Sam leave the friendly confines of the Shire, in The Hunger Games Katniss volunteers as tribute to save her little sister. In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry chooses Hogwarts over the Dursleys and escapes. And in Divergent, Beatrice Prior leaves her parents and the known world of Abnegation by choosing the Dauntless faction.
To choose this new world, and to act, the hero must practice the virtue of Courage. Without Courage, the call will remain unanswered, and the journey will stall.
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