Because it is so deeply connected its parts to one another, itself to its surroundings, it creates the sensation that nothing is separate, that everything is in harmony.

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

• This harmony results because of a state of mind in which the makers actually see the wholeness directly and accurately: that is, they see the system of centers that forms the wholeness.claim0.826
  Cognitive basis of the traditional builder's ability.
• Above all, this unity comes about because of some quality within. And it is here that the idea of the pervasive I, in every living center, begins to tell us something.claim0.811
  Beyond the properties, there is an inner essence (the I) that unifies the work.
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.807
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.807
• It is only when surrounded, all around, by such living structure that we begin to feel ourselves whole.quote0.805
  Summation of the human effect of interlocking positive space and mass within a building.
• the relative harmony or 'life' of a given building may be understood directly from the internal cohesion of the structure... without reference to opinion, prejudice or philosophy, merely as a consequence of the wholeness which exists.quote0.802
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• Not-separateness is evident in the deep interconnectedness of all things, as suggested by Mach's principle and Bell's theorem.claim0.801
• All these works stand out because we experience in them a special quality of relatedness—relatedness of ourselves to the universe.claim0.797
  The core experiential signature of great works, which holds a clue to the process of creation.