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 them

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• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.872
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.848
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.843
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.841
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• The creation of living centers in the world increases the I in those who have contact with it.claim0.830
• The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.claim0.823
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• 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.claim0.821
  Defines the qualitative shift from neutral space to living center.
• Life arises mutually as a result of the way centers prop each other up; no one of them comes first.claim0.820
  The conjuring trick of life from dead matter.