All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter<br>space is more … - Christopher Alexander

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Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

Christopher Alexander

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter
space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

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