Awareness: Labyrinth - Spiral in - Spiral out
Ebb & Flow of life
The labyrinth is an ancient symbol combining both the circle and the spiral - representing a journey to our innermost selves & the returning back again to the outer World and our everyday lives.
Spirals which wind inwards are symbolic of our journey to the stillness and silent centre of our true self , our natural awareness. They also remind us of the ever changing and unpredictable dance of the duality of life constantly moving between opposites . Order and chaos, light and dark, day and night, joy and pain . The secret is to become more conscious and aware of our infinite and eternal unchanging nature at the core of our daily existence.
Many people live a life from the premise of logical thinking - relying only on what the voice in their head tells them and what their senses feed back to them . Our inner world needs to be explored, we need to walk the labyrinth of our own consciousness and access our inner peace, tranquility and presence. This is what can change the outer world permanently. We are one consciousness witnessing reality in multitudinous forms - we are awareness witnessing itself always in everything.
Spiral in and spiral back out again.
Your outer World is a reflection of our inner world.
Walking a labyrinth facilitates prayer, contemplation, self enquiry and pilgrimage. It can be a place to unwind and untighten the knotted up and unhelpful thoughts and feelings - the stubborn ones - we just don’t seem to be able to release.
It's a place to unravel our awareness as we follow the path which always and forever guides us to the centre of our being . No alternative route is offered. Just the one, twisting and turning with its single, uncompromising destination .
‘ Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and whats inside you is a projection of whats outside. So when you step into a labyrinth outside you, at the same time your stepping into the labyrinth inside. “ - Haruki Murakami