I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.
I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.
It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns. It is not dense. It is not profound. But it is also possible to put patterns together in such a way that many patterns overlap in the same physical space: the building is very dense; it has many meanings captured in a small space; and through this density, it becomes profound.
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
ONE OF MY girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern.
Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen. . . The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?
Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.