"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Words that have shaped the thinking behind Patternly — on agency, self-trust, and building a life on your own terms.
"The possibilities of will-power and self-control appealed tremendously to my vivid imagination, and I began to discipline myself. At first it called for a vigorous mental effort directed against disposition and desire, but as years went by the conflict lessened and finally my will and wish became identical. They are so today, and in this lies the secret of whatever success I have achieved."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
"My unmatched perspicacity, coupled with sheer indefatigability, makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavor."
"Manifestation is internally shifting to a degree to which you're no longer emotionally dependent upon seeing reality change."
"If I could personally share with you the greatest tip to success — it's don't take action unless there is alignment between your opposing parts. And it's frustrating sometimes, because what you're gonna watch is: you're gonna watch yourself sitting there working on this pattern for like two to four freaking hours while other people are running forward. But I can guarantee you they did so in spite of some parts — so what's gonna happen is they're gonna go ahead of you. You're gonna sit here, you're gonna work on that alignment, and once you get the alignment, the push that you make is gonna propel you far beyond where they are. So it makes people uncomfortable, because it's the opposite of what your parents taught you. Everybody taught you to work in spite of the energies that are pulling in opposition. I'm changing the game on you, and I realize it's gonna be difficult, but I cannot tell you what this will change. You will be able to accomplish things in an 18th of the effort that it takes the average person. The greatest tip to success is find alignment before you act."
"Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes — men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men — machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate — the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: 'the Kingdom of God is within man' — not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power — the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure."
"I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. And I know I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
"My heart is at ease knowing that what is meant for me will never miss me, and what misses me was never meant for me."
"One of the things that I've noticed between champions and everyone else is that everyone else is so excited when they win. They're so excited by the idea of them getting first place, but there's a reason that they never get first place — it's because they're excited about it. The people who always and very consistently hit first place and win the championships are relieved, because they tend to hate losing more than they love winning. And they expected to win because of the level of preparation they had compared to everyone else."
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."