General talk about software patterns

["Michael Pont" <Michael.Pont AT tesco.net>]

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, Küsnacht), 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. )

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 Michael J. Pont, PhD
 Embedded Systems Laboratory
 University of Leicester

 http://www.le.ac.uk/eg/embedded

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