Dear "pattern" people, My brother came across this, and I thought I'd share it with you.
Although I personally have no great religious convictions, I suspect that the sentiments at the heart of this quote are not a million miles from the work of Christopher Alexander: "I have no judgement about myself and my life. There's nothing I'm quite sure about - no definite convictions. I only know that I was born and exist - and it seems that I have been carried along - in spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being. I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in everyone and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your individual self - and life is transformed." Jung. (Jung, Carl (Gustav) b. July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switz.--d. June 6, 1961, K�snacht), Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields. ) +==================================+ Michael J. Pont, PhD Embedded Systems Laboratory University of Leicester http://www.le.ac.uk/eg/embedded +==================================+ _______________________________________________ patterns-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/patterns-discussion
