"My sense is that we seldom complain of finding ourselves "stuck" in mysterious patterns of joy, healing, and peace in our lives. When we do, it's probably not something that we want to change. It's the negative patterns that will inevitably arise from the situations in everyday life–moments of loss, hurt, and betrayal, for example–that can become unconscious seeds for a pattern that shows up again and again. Fortunately, just as repeating cycles are also opportunities to change patterns for war and aggression on a worldwide scale, if we know our individual cycles and how they work, they can become powerful allies in healing some of the greatest hurts of our personal lives." ~ Gregg Braden, Fractal Time (page 140)