Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.

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• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.889
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.876
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.871
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.869
  Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
• The life of any one center depends on the life of other centers and is a function of the whole configuration.claim0.853
  A fundamental assertion about the relational nature of life.
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.851
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.850
  A key insight about position and context.
• 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.claim0.844
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.