Quotes About Pattern

The term crucifixion means the energy pattern of fear. It represents the limited, negative thinking of the ego, and how it always seeks to limit, contradict or invalidate love. The term resurrection means the energy pattern of love, which transcends fear by replacing it. A miracle worker's function is forgiveness. In performing our function, we become channels for resurrection.

Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life from now on: marginal and grim; my habitual daydreams and memories of our life as a couple reduced to nothing, to stuttering salvoes, by the gunpowder of the simple physical truth of my husband's absence.

Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe.

There's a pattern in these Commandments of setting things apart so their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced. Every human being is worthy of honor, but the conscious discipline of honor is learned from this setting apart of Mother and Father.

Is it odd how asymmetrical Is symmetry? Symmetry is asymmetrical. How odd it is. This stanza remains unchanged if read word by word from the end to the beginning-it is symmetrical with respect to backward reading.

Youth ministry may be one of the only professions that has settled into the pattern of handing over total responsibility for running an organization to young people just out of college. Far too often, anxiety, not wisdom, drives us.

First we form habits, then they form us.

Structure is an art. In some ways, it's the only art.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

History is a wheel. This sort of world can't go on for ever either.

At that stage of life all sorts of things were going on round about that only later took on any meaning or pattern.

Any pattern of emotion or behavior that is continually reinforced will become an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate.

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

As Mark Twain says, "History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

For nothing is moved at haphazard, but in every case there must be some reason present [1071b]

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

Some immaterial pattern of energy, throwing off a spray of radiation like the wake of a racing speedboat, had leaped from the face of the Moon, and was heading out toward the stars.

The Ramans do everything in threes.

forty-one was a "very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.

Once is an accident; twice is a coincidence; three times is a conspiracy.

The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Todo viene en círculo. [...] La vieja rueda se vuelve, y el mismo discurso se repite. Todo ya ha sido hecho antes, y lo será de nuevo.

Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life.