If self or I is woken up whenever living structure appears in matter, what we think of as value may then be described as the protection, preservation, nourishment, of the precious self of the universe.

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

• If there were indeed a realm of I, an actual self in the material universe, then we could understand the nourishment as the creation of living centers increasing this I in those who have contact with it.hypothesis0.829
  Speculative explanatory framework linking the I to the healing effect.
• Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.819
  A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
• Value, emerging as a deeper life in the wholeness of the world, turns out to be a fundamental aspect of nature itself.quote0.818
  The radical conclusion that objective value is inherent in nature, not merely a human projection.
• It is when this happens that we may sometimes feel ourselves to be in the presence of true life, true value.claim0.816
  The experience of encountering a work where the I shines through is an encounter with genuine life.
• I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.816
  The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
• To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.814
  The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
• What pleasing yourself truly IS, is the process in which we create living structure.claim0.812
  The culminating identity claim: the act of true self-pleasing and the creation of living structure are one and the same process.
• A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.805
  The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.