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LABYRINTH OF
PEACE
Dedicated August 10, 2002
Assiniboine River Corridor, Brandon, Manitoba,
Canada
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The Religion Department at Brandon University has created a Labyrinth of Peace, the only one of its kind in Canada, with the purpose of promoting religious tolerance and peace."In building the Labyrinth of Peace, we hope to raise awareness about the many religions, cultures, and communities that co-exist within our region, and the symbols they use to represent themselves," said Dr. Alison Marshall, coordinator of the Labyrinth of Peace project, and professor of religion at Brandon University. "The labyrinth will be constructed in the shape of a mandala (circular-like pattern) with the religions of Brandon being depicted around the perimeter of the structure. The students chose this particular pattern because it displays the many routes to the center, paralleling the way in which each religion offers its own pathway to the divine."
Labyrinths have been built all over the world as complex pathways leading to a center point and exit. Some say that the use of labyrinths as religious pathways has its origins in 12th Century Europe, when Christians walked around the pathways of labyrinths during sacred pilgrimages. Although there are many labyrinths designed to express one religion, few, if any, exist in Canada and the world that combine many different religions and cultures with a view to promoting religious tolerance and peace. The idea to build the Labyrinth of Peace in Brandon was inspired by a trip to New Harmony, Indiana, when Dr. Marshall and her husband walked around the maze built as a memorial to the Harmonists who lived in New Harmony between 1814-1824 and sought to create a utopian society. For more information about labyrinths around the world visit the Labyrinth Society website : www.Labyrinthsociety.org
Islam—Crescent and Star: The faith of Islam is symbolized by the Crescent and Star. The Crescent is the early phase of the moon and represents progress. The star signifies illumination with the light of knowledge. Islam by definition means submission and has the extended meaning of peace.Buddhism—Dharma Wheel: Buddhism's Dharma Wheel and its eight points symbolize the various types of living (Eightfold Path) that lead to a peaceful existence in the world. The Buddha, reputed to have lived in India during the 6th century BCE, is an example of individual peace and the end to suffering through enlightenment.
Sikhism—Khanda: The Sikh symbol, the Khanda, is composed of the double-edged sword in the centre, surrounded by the circle (chakra), with the kirpan on both sides. It represents union with God, and the importance of divine knowledge, action, and devotion while living peacefully.
Earth Religions—Three Goddess symbol: The Three Goddess symbol uses the waxing, full and waning moons to illustrate the three stages of a woman's life. Wiccans believe all living things possess a soul, and therefore all have the right to live.
Judaism—Chai symbol within the Star of David: The Jewish belief in peace and harmony is reflected in the integration of Chai (life and good luck) with the Star of David, a traditional symbol of the Jewish peoples. “Judaism may be characterized as a religion of deed, a ‘Way’ of action by which people attempt to respond to God's teachings and principles.” (Bruce Sarbit).
Native Religions—Sweet Grass in a Smudge Bowl: Smudging is a ritual of purification performed before any ceremony or sacred rite. According to Native religious beliefs, human beings should strive to live each day in balance and harmony with themselves and other parts of creation.
Hinduism—Aum: The symbol Aum is the closest verbal expression of Brahman, the universal essence of the soul. This symbol is often chanted during puja (worship), and is visually represented on many objects.
Baha’i—Nine Pointed Star: The symbol of the Nine Pointed Star reflects the Baha’i faith’s high regard for world harmony, peace, and equality. Baha’is strive to “make humanity into one global family and the earth into one homeland”
Christianity—Cross: The Cross is a representation of Jesus whom Christians accept as Christ (the Messiah) and the Son of God. They believe that Jesus died on the cross to deliver all people from their sins, and emphasize love, peace, service, and forgiveness. They recognize the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Daoism—Tai symbol of Peace: Daoism, a religion of China, is represented by the symbol of the hexagram Tai from the Classic of Changes (I-Ching/Yijing). It means peace and indicates harmony between earth (the three broken lines) and heaven (the three unbroken lines).
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Quotations 5 Edition One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
--African ProverbSome people handle the truth carelessly; Others never touch it at all.
--Anonymous
Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
--Columbian ProverbI do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
--Ben Lindsey
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.
--Latin ProverbWe few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother.
--Shakespeare, "Henry V"
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
--Mennonite ProverbGreat opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
--Sally Koch
It takes all sorts to make a world.
--English ProverbThe main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
--Lady Astor
The weaker the argument, the stronger the words.
--American ProverbTact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
--Hugh Allen
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
--French ProverbPerhaps parents would enjoy their children more if they stopped to realize that the film of childhood can never be run through for a second showing.
--Evelyn Nown
Too clever is dumb.
--German ProverbA closed mouth gathers no feet.
There's no thief like a bad book.
--Italian ProverbSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
--Francis Bacon
Tell the truth and run.
--Yugoslavian ProverbThere are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
--Thomas Sowell
Every day good luck to thee, And no day of sorrow be!
--Gaelic ProverbA sunrise is God's way of telling the world to lighten up.
--Roadside Church Sign
The child that's left to himself will put his mother to shame.
--Gaelic ProverbOh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
--Ogden Nash
The best way to get praise is to die.
--Italian ProverbI'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
--Woody Allen
Suspicion always haunts the guilty party.
--French ProverbFrank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
--Benjamin Disraeli
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
--Irish ProverbI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
--E. M. Forster
Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.
--Haitian ProverbThe trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
Only love gives us the taste of eternity.
--Jewish ProverbNo love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mauriac
If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's.
--American ProverbIn the long run men hit only what they aim at.
--Henry David Thoreau
A good friend will fit you like ring to finger.
--Venezuelan ProverbIn my friend, I find a second self.
--Isabel Norton
The one who sits on the ground need not fear a fall.
--Czech ProverbI shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
--Albert Camus
Reputation is what you are in the light; character is what you are in the dark.
--American ProverbCharacter is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
--Horace Mann
Treat the world well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was willed to you by your children.
--Kenyan ProverbThere is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
--Robert Lynd
The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever.
--Native American ProverbCertain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
--Victor Hugo
A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.
--Cuban ProverbI love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
--Roy Croft
Self-help is the best help.
--Polish ProverbSometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
--Joann Thomas
Everyone is the age of their heart.
--Guatemalan ProverbTo me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
--Bernard Baruch
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
--Maori Proverb
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
--David Viscott, MD
Bury can't and you'll find will.
--American ProverbThe great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
--Thomas Fuller
Tell me with whom you travel, and I'll tell you who you are.
--German ProverbA man is known by the company he avoids.
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
--Samuel Eliot MorisonThe American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
--Theodore White
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
--Arab ProverbIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
--Samuel Johnson
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
--American ProverbFewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
--Mark Twain
If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark.
--German ProverbThe greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
--Benjamin Disraeli
One false step brings everlasting grief. Short please, long lament.
--Chinese ProverbAlmost anything is easier to get into than out of
Do good and don't worry to whom.
--Mexican ProverbTeach us to give and not to count the cost.
--Ignatius Loyola
When you open a door, don't forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly.
--Jewish ProverbSpeak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
--Ambrose Bierce
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.
--Scottish ProverbThe events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
--Eleanor Farjeon
True friendship is one soul shared by two bodies.
--Mexican ProverbIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
--Montaigne
Never get in a battle of wits without ammunition.
--American ProverbHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
--Robert Frost
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
--Russian ProverbI want to see you shoot the way you shout.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Parents are the first teachers of the children.
--Burmese ProverbLife affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
--C. Everett Koop, MD
You never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
--Irish Proverb'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
--Anonymous
Were there no fools, there would be no wise men.
--German ProverbLet us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
--Mark Twain
Truth is not determined by the volume of the voice.
--Chinese ProverbSoft words are hard arguments.
--Thomas Fuller
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
--Native American ProverbMan is complex - he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
--Dr. Laurence J. Peter
The eyes are the mirror of the soul.
--Yiddish ProverbCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
--Henry David Thoreau
Man proposes, God disposes.
--Chinese ProverbHow to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.
--Woody Allen
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore.
--Hindu ProverbIt is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
--Charles Dudley Warner
The difference between adults and children is that adults don't ask questions.
--American ProverbChildren are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
It usually rains where it's already wet.
--German ProverbThe way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
--Dolly Parton
The very thing one likes, one does well.
--Japanese ProverbThe winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
--Edward Gibbon
It is easy to be brave from a distance.
--Native American ProverbNothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.
--Weller's Law
Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
--Japanese ProverbGossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
--Earl Wilson
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
--Chinese ProverbChildren are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
--Haim Ginott
Mirth is the sugar of life.
--German ProverbWe are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
--Will Rogers
A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
--Scottish ProverbTo have lost your reputation is to be dead among the living.
--S. H. Simmons
Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river.
--Native American ProverbHe who hesitates is interrupted.
--Franklin P. Jones
Life is a candle before the wind.
--Japanese ProverbYou only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.
--Fred Allen
In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.
--German ProverbThere was never a good war or a bad peace.
--Benjamin Franklin
Accident is the mother of invention.
--American ProverbI'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
--Lech Walesa
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
--Irish ProverbHe has the gift of quiet.
--John Le Carre
A child's tear rends the heavens.
--Yiddish ProverbWhat's done to children, they will do to society.
--Dr. Karl Menninger
Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.
--Yoruba ProverbOld age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
--Gerald Brenan
It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.
--French ProverbThese things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.
--The Talmud
Since God could not be everywhere, he created mothers.
--Jewish ProverbYou never get over being a child, long as you have a mother to go to.
--Sarah Orne Jewett
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
--Native American ProverbDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
--Matsuo Basho
Time is like a river - it flows by and doesn't return.
--Chinese ProverbTime is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
--Marcus Aurelius
We judge others by their acts, but ourselves by our intentions.
--American ProverbThis is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.
--Maxwell Maltz
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
--German ProverbI have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
--Calvin Coolidge
The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.
--Yiddish ProverbDo not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
--Dylan Thomas
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool.
--Irish ProverbThe best advice yet given is that you don't have to take it.
--Libbie Fudim
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
--Russian ProverbIf I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
--D. L. Moody
Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
--American ProverbCharacter may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
--Phillips Brooks
In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress.
--Dutch ProverbShame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.
--Samuel Johnson
He who lies in the mud will rise dirty.
--Gaelic ProverbYou can't slide uphill.
--Roadside Church Sign
The past remembered is a good guide for the future.
--Chinese ProverbI believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
--Arthur Wing Pinero
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
--German ProverbAs we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.
--Turkish ProverbGod tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
--Laurence Sterne
It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
--American ProverbThe events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
--Eleanor Farjeon
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
--Irish ProverbA dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
--Robert Benchley
Break the leg of a bad habit.
--Puerto Rican ProverbWe first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
--John Dryden
Charles Schultz Philosophy
The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip.
You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point.1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.
How did you do?
The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners .Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.Easier?
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.The lesson: 
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care .Pass this on to those people who have made a difference in your life.
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."(Charles Schultz)
Here is a math trick that might get you thinking...
1. Grab a calculator.
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code)
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2Do you recognize the answer?
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