They're all searching for their staircase.

How many steps does this staircase have?

Tom carefully climbed up the rickety 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.

There s the old courtyard, the always open door, the creaky staircase.

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

Now he wanted to use that staircase, adding three steps to it.

Levin pulled out his ramrod and drew the staircase in the dust.

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

When I was a child, I used to like sliding down the staircase banister.

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

Ascending the broad cast iron staircase to the landing, they entered the first large room.

A transition space was built between rooms located on either side of the main staircase.

A staircase gives access to the upper level, where the gangway between carriages is located.

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.

The flight of stairs to her room went up from a landing of the well heated front staircase.

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

In the denouement, the Nazis touch the Grail and explode when Henry touches it, he ascends a staircase into Heaven.

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

Climb across the famous Rialto Bridge on San Polo to the extraordinary Palazzo Pisani with its gothic architecture and grand staircase within.

The kitchen in the film was shot in the house, along with the main staircase, basement and most of the first floor landing.

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.

The police announced in a statement that tenants of the building on Marienfelder Allee noticed smoke on the staircase and contacted the fire brigade.

Blanco must compose an original poem for the presidential ceremony that will be take place on staircase of the Capitol Building on January 21st.

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.

...In the furthermost room of the library, there is a square hatch with an antique wooden staircase that leads to the basement, into the archive room.

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.

For its decorative design and ceremonial staircase, be sure to buy tickets for L Opera, created by Francois Aune and meant to model the Palais Garnier in Paris.

So, the grave digger resorted to creating sets of three meters deep holes, in which graves were designed in a staircase form, to occupy less surface space.

We enter a large yard of which I manage to get a glimpse before they remove my mask as I reach the top of a low staircase.

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.

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.

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.

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.

THE BALL HAD ONLY JUST BEGUN when Kitty and her mother ascended the broad staircase which was deluged with light, decorated with flowering plants, and occupied by powdered footmen in red liveries.

That's him,' said the door keeper pointing to a strongly built broad shouldered man with a curly beard, who, without taking off his sheep skin cap, was running lightly and quickly up the worn steps of the stone staircase.

The facts of the matter were that in the new wing that was being built the carpenter had spoilt the staircase, having made it without calculating the elevation, so that when it was put in position all the steps sloped.