Quotes About Pattern

There are three elements of the traditionalist pathway: ritual (or liturgical pattern); symbol (or significant image); and sacrifice. Evelyn Underhill, a popular Christian writer in the early part of this century, calls these three elements "sensible signs of supra-sensible action."9 They are ways we use the physical world to express nonphysical (spiritual) truths.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Routine is necessary for efficiency; breaking routine is necessary for adaptation.

know the flow of the grain. The pattern of wyrd represented by this tree is visible in the grain and you must work within it.

Transverse waves usually have to travel along the edge of the medium – for example, on the top of the water that the wave passes through. For a longitudinal wave, the regular cycle is in the same direction as the wave moves forward, not at right angles. The medium is repeatedly squashed up and relaxed like a concertina, so what travels through it is a pattern of compression and rarefaction.

All things cyclical sustain hope. All things cyclical imply futility.

Another shell glob character, the question mark (?), instructs the shell to match exactly one arbitrary character. For example, b?at matches boat and brat.

stress is not something to be afraid of or avoided. It is the controllability, pattern, and intensity of stress that can cause problems.

Rhythm is regulating.

Indeed, if moderate, predictable and patterned, it is stress that makes a system stronger and more functionally capable.

Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.

The long-term effects of stress are determined by the pattern of stress activation. When the stress-response systems are activated in unpredictable or extreme or prolonged ways, the systems becomes overactive and overly reactive—in other words, sensitized.

Through moderate, predictable challenges our stress response systems are activated moderately. This makes for a resilient, flexible stress response capacity. The stronger stress response system in the present is the one that has had moderate, patterned stress

patterned, repetitive experience in a safe environment can have an enormous impact on the brain

Patterned, repetitive stimuli lead to tolerance, while chaotic, infrequent signals produce sensitization.

there are dozens of rhythmic ways to help us regulate.

rhythm is so important, and it's often overlooked as a therapeutic tool.

And just as with trauma, several essential questions can help us assess whether a situation is neglectful, and if so, how great the impact will be. When during development did the neglect take place? What was the pattern? How severe or depriving was the neglect? How long did it last? And, since absolute neglect is rare, what 'buffering' factors were present when the neglect occurred?

Anything sequential happens in a sequence, a set of steps—

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Life is a process, not a goal; a means but not an end; a constant movement rather than an established pattern.

The room was dark and velvety from the royal blue wallpaper with its gold pattern, but even here the echo of the flaming day shimmered brassily on the picture frames, on doorknobs and glided borders, although it came through the filter of the dense greenery of the garden.

habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

We men are wretched things, and the gods, who have no cares themselves, have woven sorrow into the very pattern of our lives...Zeus the Thunderer has two jars standing on the floor of his palace, in which he keeps his gifts, the evils in one and the blessings in the other.