A thing is beautiful to the extent that it reveals this one.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• A thing which is well-made, and beautiful … will always be isomorphic to nothingness — it will have the same structure as emptiness.claim0.822
  The ultimate simplicity: living forms share the structure of the Void.
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.799
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.799
• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.795
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
• This quality, when it appears in things, people, in a moment, in an event, is God.claim0.787
  The central theological claim that the quality without a name is not an indication of God but God itself.
• When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.787
  Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
• Paradoxically, in the moment where this absolute identity and not-separateness is attained in a thing, it stands out shining with an extraordinary power.claim0.783
  The central mystery that true oneness produces maximum individuality.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.779
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception