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“With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.”

Pain Suffering Choices Compassion Mindfulness Patterns Stuck Confusion Craving Responding Identification

Author:Noah Levine

“All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.”

Responsibility Enemy Unity Including Patterns Interconnectedness

Author:Joan Halifax

“In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.”

Thinking Want Order Next Realizing Levels Our Lives Patterns Inner Strength Next Level

Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.”

Together Forever Broken Patterns Thread Sooner Or Later

Book:Prisoner of Peace

Source: Prisoner of Peace

“A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.”

Want Character Order Social Simple Common Principles Risk Produce Majority Property Patterns Profit Mutual Outsiders Dominant Acquisition Simple Living Outcast Antagonism

Book:To Have Or To Be?

Source: To Have Or To Be?

“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.”

Years Dream Life Is Our Lives Tragedy Patterns Trapped Follow Your Dreams Following Dreams Radical Acceptance

Author:Tara Brach

“Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.”

“As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.”

Wells Light Faces Communication Judgment Criticism Intention Patterns Violent Reactions Resistance Perceive Attacking Nonviolent Communication Defensiveness Withdrawing

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.”

Ifs Should Might Numbers Materials Thousand Tables Mere Patterns Sufficient Statistics Propose Beans Eliminating Dealings Packing Irrelevance

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.”

May Stuff Water Messages Rivers Patterns Whirlpools Flowing Water

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves”

Body Stuff Water Air Elements Rivers Patterns Bones Breathe Flesh Tissues Momentary Whirlpools Flowing Water

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community”

Firsts Individual Community Standards Patterns Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.”

Information Patterns Recognition Alternatives Overload Information Overload

Book:Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

Source: Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

“Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.”

Men Individual Loses Accepting Environment Awareness He Man Development Mass Response Patterns Critical Experts Colleagues Professionalism

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.”

Shows Patterns Thread

Author:George MacDonald

“When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.”

Thinking Fall Grows Forever Growing Up Successful Greater Crisis Patterns Maturity Transition Joyful Rebirth Accompany

Author:M. Scott Peck

“When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.”

War Self Facts Struggle Alive Patterns Judgement Aggression

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.”

Ifs Looks Eye Care Common Mystery Eternal Patterns Burning Carpet Commonplace Glowing If You Care Eternal Beauty

Author:Arthur Machen

“Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.”

Seems Moral Virtue Danger Taste Offers Mass Patterns Upset Shirts Shock Conform Furniture Outrageous Glare

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.”

May Pay Advice Duty Taxes Lows Increase Bounds Affair Patterns Patriotic Treasury

Author:Learned Hand

“Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.”

Reality Happens Imagination Memories Bases Patterns Significant Fancy Mixtures Improvisation Weaving Incongruity

Book:Strindberg Plays: 2: Dream Play; Dance of Death; The Stronger

Source: Strindberg Plays: 2: Dream Play; Dance of Death; The Stronger

“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.”

People Knows Men World Way Looks Matter Fall Lines Space Accepting Break Madness Patterns Chosen Rational Assumption Look Up Mentor Shocked Impart Supposition New Knowledge

Author:Knut Hamsun

“Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.”

“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.”

Littles Matter Hard Facts Individual Bits Break Little Bit Patterns Data What Matters Marble Mosaics

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others”

Interesting Aspect Patterns Procedures Most Interesting Composing Organizational Precedence

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.”

Hard Fighting Decision Brain Focus Habit Tasks Patterns Decision Making Participating Working So Hard

Book:The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

“In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.”

Knows Firsts Wells Art School Lines Hundred Patterns Grades Plus

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god? And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?”

“The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered”

Ifs Together Party Assuming Patterns Splits Freeze Disadvantages Electoral Process Electoral Systems

Book:Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance

Source: Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance

“Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as two quarters back. This pattern of disappointment and downward revision sets up the first, and the basic, challenge on the list of issues policymakers face in moving ahead: restoring growth, if that is possible.”

Ifs Years Firsts Littles Has Beens Two Faces Moving Growth Challenges Issues Rate Patterns Disappointment Lists Quarters Revision Restoring Moving Ahead

Author:Stanley Fischer

“I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.”

Thinking Creativity Depends Patterns Arise Sufficient

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.”

“Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.”

Doe Universe Levels Attention Building Relation Fundamentals Patterns Block Realising Capture Stability Physicist Interconnected Building Blocks

Author:Fritjof Capra

“As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn't make sense.”

Knows World Writing Book Given Reader Patterns Various Make Sense Explanation Nonsense Time Passes Avid

Author:Vine Deloria Jr.

“Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”

“Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.”

Mind Enough Moments Light Happens Running Pain Past Spiritual Choices Consciousness Darkness Conflict Degrees Patterns Insanity Dysfunction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.”

Feelings Light Moving Sound Heard Color Patterns Surface Texture

Author:Nick Cave

“To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.”

Energy Struggle Focus Building Patterns

Book:Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?”

Beautiful Education Share Musician Mathematics Patterns Proportion Accomplished Surprising Mathematician Math And Music

Author:Martin Gardner

“There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.”

Needs Humans Book Pay Attention Behavior Patterns Pay Attention Human Behavior

Author:Jordan Belfort

“We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.”

Years Mean Next Practice Generations Destruction Patterns Speed Scales Next Generation Unlearn Cumulative

Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether

“Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.”

World Law Theory Models Scientist Patterns Organize

Author:David Hestenes

“Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.”

Next Growth Natural Plans Stage Design Planets Evolution Birth Limits Crisis Patterns Gentle Ethical Transition Phases Finite Facilitate

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross”

Mind Heart God Christian Three Steps Seeing Crosses Patterns Disappointment Involving Appointments

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Doe Sometimes Matter Seems Happens Values Greater Circumstances Patterns Triumph Code Indifference Nothing Matters

Book:Train to Pakistan

Source: Train to Pakistan

“When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.”

Mistake Patterns

Author:Roger Goodell

“Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us of negative emotions, thought patterns, and prejudices that may weigh us down like undigested food.”

Mind May Children Eye Emotion Negative Prejudice Medicine Patterns Technique Negative Emotions Alternative Medicine Eyes Of A Child

Author:David Frawley

“Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.”

Needs Children Sometimes Done Home House Common Half Cutting Patterns One Woman Redefining

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.”

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

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