Pattern at The Almaasary • A Glossary of Key Passages from the Work of A.H. Almaas

Soul's Blueprint

The "true pattern" of the self refers to the intrinsic possibilities one is born with. It is considered a reflection of an archetypal reality. This concept corresponds to our view that the soul has a blueprint, analogous to the DNA in the cell nucleus, which shapes the pattern of development.
The Point of Existence, p. 203 • discuss »

Source of Narcissism

From the point of view of the development of the soul as the unfolding of a true pattern or blueprint, narcissism results from disturbances of the unfoldment of a person's intrinsic pattern, as well as the dissociation of this unfoldment from the essential ground and nature of the self.
The Point of Existence, p. 204 • discuss »

The Flow of Patterns

You are told to do a certain practice that will lead to a certain realization. However, being told to do a certain practice is actually simply the instantaneous flow of reality, like the instant-by-instant flow of light and sound in a movie. Whether you do the practice or not, what happens is also the instantaneous flow. If you do the practice, then that flow has a pattern. The flow deepens and changes. These phenomena appear to happen in time, but actually we don’t need our assumptions about time to see the flow and harmony in the pattern of what happens. Logically, you could see that flow happens without time.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 308 • discuss »

Patterns Are Being Generated

From this perspective, there is no difference between one person and another because their source is identical. Neither is there really a difference between ego and enlightenment; neither has anything to do with you. If you are ego, then ego is what's being generated. If you are enlightened, then enlightenment is what's being generated. If you are ignorant, then ignorance is what's being generated. We get scared sometimes when we think of things this way, when someone points out this deep truth. This truth confronts your deepest convictions about yourself, about your life, and about reality. But that fear itself is simply the flow of the pattern at that moment. There's no escape, you see. Whether you surrender or you revolt, you have nothing to do with it. You are being produced at every moment. Your resistance is being produced, and your surrender is being produced. Your knowledge is being produced, and your ignorance is being produced.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 309 • discuss »

Unfolding of Different Patterns

Doing the work is a pattern unfolding. There is the pattern of not doing the work and there is the pattern of doing the work. If you don't do the work, a certain pattern unfolds. If you do the work, a certain but different pattern unfolds. Your decision to do the work is not your decision. Your decision is produced. Because you're still not awake, you're happy about the decision. Your happiness too is part of the pattern. You have nothing to do with it. Your belief that you exist as somebody who still is not awake also is not yours. That belief is being produced too. So one of these days you will see the projector and say, "Aha, I got it! I keep thinking I'm doing this and that, but there is a light over there projecting the whole thing!"
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 324 • discuss »

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