He works his way up, finally, the grand staircase and then a smaller staircase until he reaches the attic.

They're all searching for their staircase.

This is the steriolithography of a staircase.

Here's a key passage where he basically describes the staircase.

I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.

We climb the staircase and experience a state of altered consciousness.

And I think if Grace Kelly is the most glamorous person, maybe a spiral staircase with glass block may be the most glamorous interior shot, because a spiral staircase is incredibly glamorous.

I got that staircase for 20 dollars, including delivery to my lot.

But you don't need a religion to get you through the staircase.

One of the most common is climbing the secret staircase and losing ourselves.

Neil Selinger, to me, is the embodiment of mounting the staircase in his third act.

The world's many religions have found so many ways to help people climb the staircase.

So, I'm plugging along here and I'm just going to have to blow up the staircase.

JH So note how Bradley's petty, moralistic self just dies on the way up the staircase.

But sometimes it's as though a doorway appears from out of nowhere and it opens onto a staircase.

And most importantly, if the staircase is real, it explains the persistent undercurrent of dissatisfaction in modern life.

So here's the million dollar question for social scientists like me Is the staircase a feature of our evolutionary design?

I'm saying we are Homo duplex and this staircase takes us up from the profane level to the level of the sacred.

This man is angry because somebody threw onions all over the staircase, and basically you know, I guess onions are a theme here.

And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.

The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary upwards to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.

I can't be certain if the staircase is an adaptation rather than a bug, but if it is an adaptation, then the implications are profound.

Now let me say something about the staircase, which may seem like an odd metaphor for seniors given the fact that many seniors are challenged by stairs.

Two rockets landed in Kiryat Shmona one landed on a staircase of a three story apartment building and another completely destroyed a living room of a house.

If you look at the staircase, you'll see that in your 20s the risers are very high and the steps are very short, and you make huge discoveries.

When we climb that staircase, self interest fades away, we become just much less self interested, and we feel as though we are better, nobler and somehow uplifted.

Any time you go backwards, any time you skip a step imagine walking up a staircase where some of the treads are missing, or the heights are different heights.

There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards the staircase bringing us into wholeness, authenticity and wisdom.

One great challenge of modern life is to find the staircase amid all the clutter and then to do something good and noble once you climb to the top.

And I have come to find that a more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.

This is from a 16th century Aztec scroll showing a man about to eat a psilocybin mushroom and at the same moment get yanked up the staircase by a god.

I happen to find that particular staircase picture very glamorous because, to me, it captures the whole promise of the academic contemplative life but maybe that's because I went to Princeton.

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