LIVING MOMENTS OF AWARENESS Door May Be Open! Houdini, the great magician and escape artist could free himself from any handcuff or straight- jacket. Jails could not confine him; he just unlocked the lock and walked out a free man. Throughout the world he baffled the police of every nation; but in England one jail warden got the better of him. Houdini had accepted a wager to free himself from a cell in a little jail. It seemed like child’s play compared to the difficult tasks he had accomplished in America by escaping from the most securely locked cell in State prisons. Yet he worked for two hours at the lock of this small British prison cell without success. He worked with terrific speed and skill which usually unlocked doors in 30 seconds. But here he sweated and fretted, but he could not get the lock to spring. Finally, in utter exhaustion, tried out by his strenuous efforts, he leaned against the door for some rest. To his great surprise, the door swung open — it had never been locked! Life is like that. We build up in our minds barriers which do not exist. We see obstacles where there are none. We lock ourselves in the jail of failures, of doubts and fears that live only in our imagination. We have stopped trying because we think it is not useful. If instead of sitting down and giving up, we would just lean against the door, may be it would swing open too. – Courtesy: Wisdom