A labyrinth has to do with my "inner" path, which everyone seeks within themselves and can find if they just walk it. While walking the labyrinth, I experience:

AS IN THE LABYRINTH - SO IN LIFE

• I'm on my way.
• I consciously take my first steps into the labyrinth.
• I take my life experience - my experiences along the way - with me.
• Of paths I have walked - of paths I have not walked.
• From paths I no longer wanted to continue.
• Of crossroads where I didn't know which way to go.

An important distinction.

• A labyrinth is not a maze - not a wrong path.
• In the “maze” there are many possible paths, but not all of them lead to the goal.
• The “maze” – called “TRAP” in Arabic culture – is a synonym for the trap.
• I can get lost and go astray, reach dead ends and not know what to do next.
• In the maze there is a constant need to turn around, choose a new path and decide on a different direction.
• The “maze” is therefore a symbol for the possibility and necessity of the decision,
• of the “either-or” (Kiergegaard) and the “grace of a new beginning” in life.
• I can also reach my destination in and through the maze.

Here too, the saying “AS IN THE MAZE - SO IN LIFE” applies.

In the classic labyrinth - in the basic form of Chartres - there is always only one way.

• A beginning - a middle - an end.
• I just need to follow the path. I just can't give up.
• I can let the path guide me and trust in the path.
• It goes like a pendulum - back and forth - up and down - forwards and backwards.
• It goes left - it goes right - again and again.
• On the left is the trail of death - west into the darkness - "counter-sunning" - where the sun sets.
• On the right is the path of life - the path of love - to the east - "with-suns" - to the light where the sun rises.
• I turn left. I turn right.
• “To turn” also means “to change”.
• The changes happen on the way - when I set out on the journey.

AS IN THE LABYRINTH - SO IN LIFE

• I come to the middle on my way.
• I think—I've finally reached my goal—the goal of my hopes and desires. But what a disappointment.
• I realize I'm getting off track again. I'm being thrown back.
• I have to start all over again.
• I always have to start over in life. I get to start anew every day.
• Only if I keep going will I reach my goal. Only if I keep living will I stay alive.

I am standing in front of the middle.

• This is the place of conflict in the labyrinth.
• I meet myself - I meet my shadow - my joy and my pain, my hope and my fear.
• In the story of the labyrinth, the center is always the place where the dark, the demonic, lurks.
• In Greek mythology, it is the Minothaurus that Theseus encounters.
• The Minothaurus - that is the demonic, the dark in my life.
• That which scares me—that which makes me sick. That which wants to devour me—and take my life.
• It is death that wants to kill me.
• Theseus fights against death—he fights for his life. He fights with the weapons his beloved Ariadne has given him. A consecrated sword and a red thread—"the red thread of love"—are the weapons with which one can defeat evil and find one's way back to life.

In the Christian labyrinth,
which was installed in many churches at the latest in the Middle Ages, Jesus Christ is the center.
The sign of the cross is the basic structure of the labyrinth.
Jesus Christ says of himself: “I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE!”
“Ego sum via, veritas et vita!”

• I can't stay inside the labyrinth. I want to get out.
• I want to return to life. To the light.
• One turn - one revolution is necessary.
• The so-called “life twist” (medieval topos) shows me the new direction:
• always from death to life - from darkness to light -
• from inner chaos to inner harmony - from inner unrest to peace of the heart.