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Quotes about Patterns

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns
around which we structure our lives,
we learn how to take charge, revise, refine,
and even completely rewrite them.

Mandy Aftel
Source: The Story of Your Life : Becoming the Author of Your Experience
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“There are patterns which emerge in one’s life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.”

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
Source: Jacqueline Carey
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them,
we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Chuang Chou, a.k.a. Chuang Tzu, Chuang Tse Chuang : Chinese philosopher, major thinker in Taoism
Chuang Tzu (c.360 BC - c. 275 BC)
Contributed by: Jessica Farley. More quotes added by Jessica from this | all sources
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Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn’t enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.

Pema Chodron : Gaia Child
Pema Chodron
Contributed by: Jessica Farley. More quotes added by Jessica from this | all sources
More quotes about: buddhism, patterns, karma, practice
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don’t interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?

Pema Chodron : Gaia Child
Pema Chodron
Contributed by: Jessica Farley. More quotes added by Jessica from this | all sources
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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns

Bruce Lee : Gaia Explorer
Bruce Lee
Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/all_fixed_set_patterns_are_incapable_of/262671.html
Contributed by: Sandra Jensen. More quotes added by Sandra from all sources
More quotes about: bruce lee, patterns, adaptation, truth
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To transcend means to “go beyond,” but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can “go beyond” the “ordinary” powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a “patternist.” It’s through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

Ray Kurzweil : Gaia Explorer
Ray Kurzweil
Source: Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I., Page: Chapter 10: The Material World
Contributed by: Gaia Team. More quotes added by Gaia Team from this | all sources
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Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

Marilyn Ferguson
Source: http://www.famous-quotes-and-inspirational-quotes.com/quotations/context-quotes.htm
Contributed by: Tracy A. Phaup. More quotes added by Tracy from all sources
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Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old.  No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

Lotte Lehmann
 
Contributed by: Audrey. More quotes added by RainbowBright from all sources
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Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

Ray Kurzweil : Gaia Explorer
Ray Kurzweil
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from this | all sources
More quotes about: evolution, stages, singularity, patterns, epochs
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