In any living process, the next step which is most structure-enhancing is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole.

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• At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.851
  Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
• Each step in a living process enhances the whole.claim0.849
  Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.820
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.814
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.814
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.808
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.804
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• The process of adding local symmetries in a structure-preserving way intensifies the feeling, and when carried out fully leads to the emergence of the archetype.claim0.802