Even one act of making the field of centers changes a person, bringing calmness, quietness, and peacefulness.

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• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.840
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.806
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• Barbara Winslow reached peacefulness and health simply from making the field of centers, as recorded in her 1978 thesisfinding0.801
  Empirical diary evidence of the healing effect of creating wholeness.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.794
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.787
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• The key lesson in all this is simple and extreme. The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process.quote0.787
  Emphasizes that creating living structure requires dedicated focus.
• The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.787
  Focus on anything else yields something else.
• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.784
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.