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year the Expo will again
feature a 7 circuit Labyrinth in the West Hall.
A Labyrinth is an archetypal pattern that has been used by almost all
cultures throughout history. Unlike a maze, which has dead ends and
many possible ways to become lost, a Labyrinth gives example of our
walk through life, with one shared beginning and end and a singular
path to follow into the center and out again. The metaphor being ‘there
is no way off your path'.
Many people can walk the Labyrinth together. When walking with others,
a ‘mirror’ is often held up before you; reflecting back
the behaviors and personality characteristics that you express commonly
in everyday life. It is therefore, on one level, an opportunity to learn
about yourself, and then choose to make those personal changes that
can lead to having improved relationships, higher creativity and overall
happiness. At a more basic level, the Labyrinth is a powerful tool to
assist your mind and body into a state of relaxation. It is a walking
meditation, and therefore a way to practice moving mindfully through
life. In addition, people have used Labyrinths for hundreds of years
as oracles, places to receive answers to life's troubling questions.
Entering the Labyrinth with a question or thought to meditate upon while
walking often brings a unique and unexpected clarity and peace. ‘Walking
a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth As a Spiritual Tool’
written by The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress, an Episcopalian priest,
and one of the pioneers in bringing the Labyrinth back into the mainstream.
Dr. Artress believes the Labyrinth to be a gathering place for the Spirit.
In other words, it is a place to receive proper nourishment for the
spirit within, a situation not readily available in our normal day to
day existence.
Please enter the labyrinth in a state of mindfulness, with patience,
leaving behind the pace of the Internet, the workaday world, the freeway,
or even the buzzing in your own brain. Experience the inner peace always
waiting as you experience a higher level of awareness in walking this
sacred path. No shoes on the Labyrinth please – socks and bare
feet only.
Visit
a really cool virtual labyrinth online at: www.labyrinthonline.com/
Visit an extensive informational site at: www.labyrinthina.com/
Visit Grace Cathedral's labyrinth www.gracecathedral.org/labyrinth/
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