Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.

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

• 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.claim0.846
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• The core of every living center is the self—this 'I'.claim0.838
  An ontological claim that places the self as the essential nucleus of all living structure.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.829
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Now, each living center has life to the extent that it is linked to other living centers (see Book 1 / INTRODUCTION chapter 4).quote0.817
  Direct statement linking center-interdependence to the concept of life, foundational for the network argument.
• If each living center is but a reflection of a single unity, has the same origin in its being, then the whole is animated by this same being behind the scenes—and we experience the same living fire in every part.claim0.816
  The mechanism by which the I manifests: all centers sharing the same ontological origin produce a unified living fire.
• Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.815
  Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.811
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• There must be some relation between the ultimate nature of a living center and the nature of the I.hypothesis0.810
  The hypothesis that the deepest aspect of centers is identical with the I-like presence.