The Nature of Order - The Luminous Ground
See "A Pattern Language", http://patternlanguage.com
From "The Luminous Ground" page 5
by Christopher Alexander, FAAA, Emeritus Prof. of Architecture, UC Berkeley, etc.
But this knowing of myself, and what was in my own true heart, was not only childish. Because at the same time that I recognized it in small things -- like cups of tea, leaves blowing off an autumn tree, a pebble underfoot -- I also began to recognize it in very great things, in works made by artists centuries away from us in time, thousands of miles away in space. In some thing which one of them had made, suddenly this childish heart, this me, came rushing back. I could feel this, for example, in the mud wall at the back of the sand garden of Ryoan-ji, I could feel it in the worn stone of a church, laid fourteen hundred years before. Somehow, I began to realize that the greatest masters of their craft were those who somehow managed to release in me that childish heart which is my true voice, and with which I am completely comfortable and completely free.
