Patterns Quotations | Page 8

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.