Patterns Quotes - Page 34

Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.

Dan Miller

Opportunity, Transition, Looks

Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.28, B&H Publishing Group

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The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

John Steinbeck

Book, Reality, Design

John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.29, Penguin

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By looking through the eyes of co-creation - seeing that we are co-creating this universe, co-creating our relationships, and co-creating our experiences - we can find the unseen patterns that exist inside of us. And with this clear-eyed wisdom, we are able to cut the line, drop the anchor, and set ourselves free.

Debbie Ford

Eye, Cutting, Anchors

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Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

Moshe Feldenkrais

Belief, Behavior, Permanent

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The family is the pattern of heaven.

Lawrence E. Corbridge

Heaven

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Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Mean, Ideas, Space

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I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

Carl Jung

Men, Collective Unconscious, Energy

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It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

Michael Beckwith

Inspirational, Beautiful, Mistake

FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Dec 14, 2016

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Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Manly Hall

Creating, Design, Substance

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My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

Moshe Feldenkrais

Moving, Creativity, Reflection

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With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.

Robert J. Sawyer

Technology, Data, Creating

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The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don't know, people can find their own way. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature.

Laozi

Clever, Thinking, People

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Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern

Bankei Yotaku

Perspective, Pulse, Unborn

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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.

Bertolt Brecht

Squirrels, Perspective, Bird

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When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Pride, Two

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Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are, the more they block the creative energy. Most people hope that by ignoring negativity, it will go away, but the reverse is actually true. Through recognizing, acknowledging, and experiencing it, the blocked energy can be released. You are then free to replace it with positive beliefs and attitudes.

Shakti Gawain

Art, Attitude, Block

Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

William Walker Atkinson

Art, Imagination, Firsts

William Walker Atkinson (2016). “The Secret Of Success”, p.30, William Walker Atkinson

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The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

Adam Fletcher

United States, Discrimination, Founding

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I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

Richard Chamberlain

Unique, Two, Carbon Footprint

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

D. Patrick Miller

Wise, Healing, Ideas

D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

Dalai Lama

Truth, Nice, Animal

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[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.

Lionel Tiger

Inspirational, Past, Years

Lionel Tiger (2017). “The Pursuit of Pleasure”, p.33, Routledge

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What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

Timothy Leary

Wish, Psychedelic, Reflexes

Timothy Leary (2004). “Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation”, p.118, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.

Barbara Jordan

Country, Work, Men

Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Maya Lin

Resistance, Flight, Wave

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