If we view labyrinths as an interesting design, tool, as a historical artifact or new age phenomenon, then we miss what the labyrinth has to give. If we open ourselves instead to the bigger picture of connection, realization, and self-actualization, then the labyrinth can be seen and used as a pathway leading us to become who we most truly are. To discover that piece of the Divine that dwells within each of us and to heal that which has separated us from our own truth, from the Creator, and our unique place in creation. Unlike mazes, which have dead-ends and wrong turns, and are designed to confound and confuse us, a labyrinth is unicursal - there is one open, unobstructed path, directing the walker into the center and back out again. The path that guides us deeply into the psychological and spiritual center is the same path that takes us back out again into the manifest physical world in which we outwardly reside.

Labyrinths are ancient. Called "divine imprints," they have been a part of sacred landscape through human history. What they symbolize and how they affect us, by directly connecting us with the deepest part of ourselves remains a beautiful mystery.