A center becomes precious because it is helping some larger center to exist and have life. This preciousness is the vital core of every center.

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• Preciousness of Centersconcept0.857
  The quality of a center that intensifies when it helps a larger center; the vital core of every center.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.832
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.825
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• Centers which have life increase our own life because we ourselves are centers too; we feel more wholesome in the presence of things which have wholesomeness in themclaim0.821
  Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.815
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• Why do centers arise at all? Why do centers become more intense or more alive?question0.804
  Alexander's deeper formulation of the morphogenetic question in terms of his center-based framework
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.803
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.797
  Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self