Wow: Walking the Labyrinth

Than­ks to pat­greene for shar­ing her words with the world: Walk­ing the Labyrinth

You must walk the path. No one can walk it for you.

You must walk the path. Walk­ing around the path, look­ing at the path, watch­ing oth­ers walk the path gains you nothing.

You must pay atten­tion to the path. If you wan­der, you will be lost.

If you leave the path for any rea­son, no mat­ter how good or impor­tant that rea­son seems at the time, you will be lost.

No mat­ter how many times you get lost, you can always go back to the begin­ning and start again. It will not be the same path, for you are not the same per­son, but you will no longer be lost.

Retrac­ing your steps does not mean going back­ward. Though the path may seem the same, it is not, for you are for­ev­er chang­ing and will always be who you are now, not the per­son you were when you first walked along the path.

You must learn to walk with­out regard to the tumult around you. If you lis­ten to the chaos, you will be over­whelmed and the path will become meaningless.

You must walk your path. If you fol­low anoth­er, or cling so tight­ly there is no space between you, you are not walk­ing your path, you are walk­ing theirs.

You can nev­er tell how far it is to the end until you get there.