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It is when this happens that we may sometimes feel ourselves to be in the presence of true life, true value.

The experience of encountering a work where the I shines through is an encounter with genuine life.

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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.
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The mechanism by which the I manifests: all centers sharing the same ontological origin produce a unified living fire.

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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.claim0.816
New assumption #8: value as protection of the universal self.
It is only when surrounded, all around, by such living structure that we begin to feel ourselves whole.quote0.814
Summation of the human effect of interlocking positive space and mass within a building.
It is only when you finally are personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the wholeness.claim0.811
When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.809
Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
True belonging — true life — occurs when a penetration of the real into the fabric of the world occurs.claim0.808
Defines the fundamental mechanism through which authentic connection to place happens
Almost all of us perceive this quality and feel it as it occurs in varying degrees in different parts of space.claim0.799
Asserts the universality of the perception, not just the author's idiosyncrasy.
Value, emerging as a deeper life in the wholeness of the world, turns out to be a fundamental aspect of nature itself.quote0.798
The radical conclusion that objective value is inherent in nature, not merely a human projection.
The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.797